The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the experience of female voice change from the perspective of female middle and high school choral students. The study was guided by two questions: How do adolescent female choir students experience voice change? What is the essence of the experience of voice change for middle school…

A study examined changes in recall of a ballad that is part of an oral tradition in North Carolina, noting what changes occur, why those changes occur, and what lines are most susceptible to change. When a story is passed along orally, it sometimes changes so much that it may not be recognizable as the same when two versions are compared. Subjects…

With their arms resting at their sides and standing up tall and focused, students in Tom Shelton's eighth-grade honors women's choir watch Shelton's hands and sing the matching solfege pitches on his cue. As they go down the scale, sol, fa, mi, re, do, Shelton says, "Listen. Don't let mi go flat." The girls try again, this time more…