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Closing date for submissions: Friday 8 April 2005. Call for Papers Deliver the Voice: insights & advances The 7th Voice Symposium of Australia, to be held at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, 15 - 17 September 2005. Themes are: skill acquisition the injured voice standards of practice Submissions addressing the themes for individual papers, posters and interactive workshops can be submitted. For more information or a brochure phone (+61 2) 6257 3299 or email voice@ausconvservices.com.au. Full details available on the deliver the voice website. Voice of ANATS Newsletter - Nov 2004 News, views, happenings, events, announcements, Conference Reports, articles, photos, Letters to the Editor and much more. It's all in the November 2004 edition of The Voice of ANATS. View a web version on screen in your browser   Download a PDF copy (20 A4 pages - 2.5MB) (quicker to download)   PDF Tip (for Windows users): Right-click the above PDF link and click "Save Target As...", in the context menu which appears, to monitor your download and specify where to save it on your computer. Results revealed from the "Listening Test" held at the ANATS National Conference in July 2004. In July 2004, ANATS member Jennifer Barnes presented a paper at the ANATS conference in Sydney. As part of that paper, the audience took part in a listening exercise that forms part of her PhD study. Here are the results of the exercise, the "Listening Test": The Listening Test There were 10 pairs of soprano voices and the audience was asked to choose which one of each pair was likely to be more audible over orchestra. They were asked to ignore their personal voice preferences and decide purely on the one criterion. Through acoustic analysis, I had arrived at a set of predictions and I was interested in whether the predictions would be backed up by what people heard.   In 7 of the 10 pairs, the audience as a whole agreed with the predictions, which is significantly better than chance. This indicates that, as a group, their perception agreed well with the prediction. 70% of the individual audience members agreed with the predictions in at least 6 pairs of the 10 possible. There were six soprano voices used in the samples and these had been rated from high energy to low energy overall using acoustic analysis. When the audience votes were considered in relation to each soprano singer, the results agreed very well with the prediction. While there was a small shift in position, the singers predicted as the higher 3 or lower 3 for audibility were also rated that way by the listeners. This differentiation is stunning given that all of the soprano singers used have performed at high level in opera. Our audience obviously were able to distinguish well even when the ability of the singers was relatively even as compared to the whole population of singers.   Prediction The prediction from highest to lowest was:  Singer 6, Singer 2, Singer 3, Singer 4, Singer 5, Singer 1 The listeners rated them as follows:            Singer 2, Singer 6, Singer 3, Singer 1, Singer 4, Singer 5 Results The results are fully explained in a paper that has been submitted to Australian Voice. They have also been reported on the ABC Science online website at: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1188869.htm ANATS National Conference: July 2004: An Inspirational Time for All   View all Conference photos     Download Conference Program (12 x A4 pages - PDF file 1.1MB)   Download fullsize photo of delegates shown below (520KB JPG) FACES IN THE CROWD Delegates at the recent ANATS National Conference 2004, Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, NSW.       Group singing exercise with Peter Hunt   ANATS National President, Robert Mitchell speaking   ANATS Straw Poll No.1: The Results What are the most essential reference books on the bookshelves of ANATS members around the country? See the Top 10 voted by ANATS members here... and the rest of them here

ANATS National Conference 2004 Update Singing: Mastery and Mystery Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia Thursday 15 - Sunday 18 July, 2004 Sydney Conservatorium website On behalf of the National Council of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Sydney Chapter invites you to join them at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 15-18 July, 2004, for the biennial national conference. ANATS is delighted to bring together this group of fine Australian and international presenters. We invite you to explore aspects of the Mastery and Mystery of singing and the teaching of singing as ideas, artistry and - most of all - practice. Click here for full details of the conference

New 'Voice of ANATS' Editor

Dec 2003 Feb 2004 Update

Update

Welcome Cathy Aggett, the new "Voice of ANATS" editor. Cathy will be assisted by Pat Wilson.

More about Cathy:

Cathy Aggett holds a Diploma of Music Education from the NSW Conservatorium of Music, a Master of Music Degree from the University of NSW, and an Associate and Licentiate Diplomas (Teacher's) in Singing from the Trinity College of London. Cathy's career has been one that has involved many facets of the Music profession, including Music Education, teaching classroom music from K - Y12; performance as a vocal soloist, conductor and accompanist; leadership in the Orff Schulwerk Association of NSW as Bulletin Editor for 3 years, editing and type-setting 4 books and holding Leadership and Level 3 accreditation; and as a private teacher of voice, piano and musicianship.

Cathy was a member of the music staff at St Andrew's Cathedral School from 1991 - 1998. She was Head of Department for 3 of those years. While at the school, Cathy was involved with the St Andrew's Music Festival, conducting combined performances of two Choral works by Benjamin Britten: Noye's Fludde and St Nicholas . Cathy has appeared as a soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah , Bach's St John Passion , the Beethoven Mass in C and Peter Sculthorpe's Child of Australia. Apart from Vocal and Choral music, especially contemporary Australian repertoire, she has an avid interest in music technology and music publishing.

Cathy's experience with Choral music has been extensive, including 4 years as a conductor and accompanist with the Australian Youth Choir, travelling with the Choir as accompanist on its first American Tour in 1990. She directed a professional choir for 2 years, who performed each month at St Phillip's Church, Castle Cove. Cathy is the Director & founder of Sydney Singers, a semi-professional chamber choir, of which Richard Gill O.A.M. is patron.

2002 marked the beginning of research into a vocal tutor for beginner singers titled Voices of Oz. Research into the book progressed steadily throughout 2003 and the aim of including a repertoire of 30 songs had reached 17 at the time of writing this biography. In 2003 Cathy decided to concentrate more on studio work, and to that end, registered her studio as Northern Beaches Music Studio.

Could you be the next new editor of The Voice of ANATS?

Pat Howes has been editing The Voice of ANATS since 1995 and is now retiring from the position. It is not an arduous task, since the newsletter only comes out three times a year. Pat feels a new editor would have fresh ideas which could only improve the newsletter.

For information call Pat on (02) 9953 3678 or email pat_howesvoice@bigpond.com

Cathy Aggett

Articles for Australian Voice

Jan 2004

Author Guidelines - information for contributors

Australian Voice needs you!

Australian Voice is the official journal of ANATS and published annually. It will be its 10th Edition in 2004.

*2004 will be the 10th Edition of Australian Voice*

The purpose of Australian Voice is to provide a medium for presentation and dissemination of original articles and research papers on all topics related to voice.

It seeks to be non-partisan and international in perspective, while encouraging discussion and enquiry about a wide range of subjects and methodologies.

Research papers and original articles are invited from practitioners in all relevant fields on topics related to voice - voice science, physiology, pedagogy, therapy and health, performance practice and style, music literature and repertoire.

Scholarly articles are required for potential inclusion. They should fall into one of the following categories:

Articles - Refereed

Scholarly articles are sought and subjected to a blind peer review process. Article length may be 1,500-3,000 words (short), 3,000-5,000 words (medium), or more than 5,000 words (long). The article may contain tables and illustrations. Authors should provide these in the format ready for reproduction.

The Forum - Non-refereed Contributions

Teachers, performers, clinicians are invited to contribute with first-hand accounts of their experiences. Contributors are encouraged to share accumulative wisdom and empirical knowledge. This may be in the form of:

• a documentation of clinical instances
• a description of personal views
• a case study
• a report of an unusual or unique opportunity or experience
• the documentation of a teacher, student, therapist or clients' personal journey
• a story of shared experiences of a team of professionals working on a group project

This forum is intended to open debate as well as inform.

Submission requirements

Submissions should:

• follow the style as set out on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed. 2001)
• conform to The Macquarie Dictionary (3rd ed. rev.) spelling
• for matters of style not covered by these two publications, the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers (6th ed., 2002, Wiley) should be consulted
• include references and notes at the end of the article not as footnotes on each page
• use the editorial style used in the current Australian Voice journal

Send your contributions in hard (paper) copy together with a copy on diskette in IBM-compatible format along with a short biography to:

Adele Nisbet

The Editor

Australian Voice

C/- Queensland Conservatorium of Music

Griffith University

PO Box 3428

South Brisbane BC QLD 4101

For more info email Adele Nisbet

Author Guidelines - information for contributors

Australian Voice Schedule for 2004

Australian Voice Vol 8 2002

Index of Australian Voice Articles

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