Vocal quality, symptoms, and habits in musical theater actors

dc.contributor.authorD'haeseleer, Evelien
dc.contributor.authorQuintyn, Fien
dc.contributor.authorKissel, Imke
dc.contributor.authorPapeleu, Tine
dc.contributor.authorMeerschman, Iris
dc.contributor.authorClaeys, Sofie
dc.contributor.authorVan Lierde, K.M. (Kristiane)
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-21T04:55:57Z
dc.date.available2023-07-21T04:55:57Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.description.abstractPURPOSE : The purpose of this study was to measure and compare the voice characteristics and vocal complaints and habits of musical theater actors and musical theater students. METHOD : Thirty participants were included in the study, 18 musical theater students and 12 professional musical theater actors. Vocal quality was measured by the multiparameter indices Dysphonia Severity Index (DSI) and Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI). A perceptual evaluation of the speaking voice was performed using the GRBASI scale. All participants completed the Voice Handicap Index (VHI), the VHI adapted to the singing voice, the Vocal Tract Discomfort (VTD) Scale and the Corporal Pain Scale. RESULTS : Excellent scores for DSI (resp. 7.3, 7.1) and AVQI (resp. 2.6, 2.5) were found in the musical theater actors and students. All participants reported at least two symptoms of VTD and the mean scores for the VHI adapted to the singing voice were located in the clinical zone. Musical theater students reported significantly more VTD and pain symptoms compared to the professionals. No significant differences in perceptual and objective voice characteristics were found between musical theater actors and students. A higher presence of vocal misuse and stress in the students was observed. CONCLUSION : Musical theater students and actors are elite vocal performers with comparable excellent objective vocal measures (DSI, AVQI). In both groups, an increased number of VTD and complaints of the singing voice were reported. Especially students were vulnerable for stress, vocal misuse, VTD, and pain symptoms. The findings suggest that musical theater actors are a risk group for developing voice disorders requiring multidimensional voice assessment and voice care.en_US
dc.description.departmentSpeech-Language Pathology and Audiologyen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2023en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-voiceen_US
dc.identifier.citationD'haeseleer, E., Quintyn, F., Kissel, I. et al. 2022, 'Vocal quality, symptoms, and habits in musical theater actors, Journal of Voice, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 292.e1-292.e9, doi : 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.05.019.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0892-1997 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1873-4588 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.05.019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/91563
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2020 The Voice Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Voice. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Voice, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 292.e1-292.e9, 2022, doi : 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.05.019.en_US
dc.subjectMusical theateren_US
dc.subjectSingersen_US
dc.subjectActorsen_US
dc.subjectVoiceen_US
dc.titleVocal quality, symptoms, and habits in musical theater actorsen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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