Volitional Control of Vibrato in Trained Singers

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INTRODUCTION

WHEN A SINGER IS AFFLICTED with a too fast or too slow vibrato rate, does physiological hard wiring condemn him to that condition for life, or can he change it over time? In search of the answer to that question, Neisha Carter, a graduate student in the Speech Pathology program at Brigham Young University, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Dromey, her faculty mentor in her department, and in conjunction with Dr. J. Arden Hopkin, a professor in the School of Music, prepared a controlled study leading to her thesis, "Volitional Changes to Vocal Vibrato in Accomplished Singers" (2001). The study systematically investigated an informal experiment drawn from the …