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hearing acuity, and other similar factors would have to be tested and measured.
Problem 4. What procedures could reliably determine optimal age levels for students (male and female) to begin a systematic course of training in singing? Physiological and mental factors would have to be considered.
Problem 5. By what objective criteria can the minimum prescribed training and vocal accomplishments of known successful professional singers be determined and compared? Such factors as years of vocal training, educational background, musicianship, public appearances, physique, general health, etc., could be considered.
Problem 6. What are the general and specific objectives of vocal training now most commonly endorsed by singing teachers? A questionnaire could be used to elicit these opinions from the vocal teaching profession.
Problem 7. How can contributions to the knowledge of the functioning of the singing voice, thus far made in the field of psychology, be explored and evaluated? Research data would have to be compiled, compared, evaluated and classified for ready reference by teachers of singing, with a view to formulating a basic psychology of the singing voice.
Problem 8. What procedures can be used for exploring and evaluating the contributions to vocal pedagogy of such sciences as physics, physiology, anthropology, neurology, speech, acoustics, etc.?
Problem #. How can vocal reflexes be tested and measured so as to determine the controllability of certain vocal actions by the sin^ex (e.g., in breathing, phonation, resonance, etc.)? It would also be helpful to know to what extent the habitual practicing of conscious vocal controls and voluntary vocal techniques introduces abnormal inhibitory factoi-s into the nervous response of the vocal organs.
Problem 10. a) How can the effects upon the singing voice of the muscle tonus of a healthy body be measured? Physiological and acoustical objective comparisons made between voices produced in superior, normal and pathological states of health would reveal the importance of stressing health factors when training the singing voice, b) Do singers tend to build an immunity toward certain types of disease, e.g., pulmonary disorders?
Problem 11. What is known about the condition called "stage fright" (or extreme self-consciousness) and its effects upon the singing voice? A thorough-going psychological and physiological investigation of this problem would be revealing and useful to the teacher of singing.
Problem 12. Can an objective analysis of spontaneous, vocal utterances, produced in off-guard and unpremeditated situations, reveal the funda- |
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