Practices in warming up and unwarming of the voice on lyric singers.

• Autor(a) principal: Quintela, Andréa Scheffer
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves Leite, Isabel Cristina, Daniel, Renata Jacob
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: HU Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/hurevista/article/view/41
• topic: treinamento da voz; Voz; Epidemiologia

A very high vocal demand occurs during the practice of the lyric singing, with strong intensities and high treble notes, causing the overload of the involved muscles in the voice releasing. This study evaluated the warming-unwarming vocal practice for lyric singers, as well as, the influence of the speech therapists as preventive agents. A cross-sectional study was performed to evaluate a sample of thirty-three singers from the brazilian Southeast region, that went through a questionnaire; being asked broad questions such as identification, vocal arrangement, age, education, dedication time to the lyric singing and warming-unwarming vocal practice. The main noticed results were the priorities concerning to warming techniques and the need to encourage the teaching of unwarming approachs among the preceptors of those singers category to value their working-tool, that is the voice, as well as the small search for Speech therapists (only 27% sample); considering that even when searched, this information achieved only 44% of the cases. Not only the need of encouraging the vocal warming-unwarming in the academic environment has been emphasized, but also the professionals involved with needs, altogether with singers category.