Published articles

Click on the title to see the abstract and link to the full article.

From 2023 the journal moved to a continuous rolling system of articles, rather than issue-based.

May 2020

Editorial, Martin Ashley

001The functions and effects of verbal imagery in choral rehearsals, Mary Black.
017The development of a vocal warm-up resource for busy teachers: creating a set of warm-up resource cards for teachers and directors of children’s choirs, Olivia Sparkhall.
033Boiling frogs and tipping points: which sung pitch range is best for boys during voice change? Jenevora Williams
041Pitch, pedagogy and performance: demographic structure and vocal blending in an English cathedral boys’ choir, Martin Ashley
058Findings from a survey of pitch drift, Richard Seaton, Allan Jones, Dennis Pim and David Sharp
071Boys’ voices, lads’ voices: Benjamin Britten and the Ragazzo sound, Jim Coyle
094Influences on pitching variation in a cappella choral singing, David Howard and Sigi Overy
103Communication for conductors: insights from qualitative research, Michael Bonshor

October 2021

Editorial, Martin Ashley

115Nature or Nurture? An investigation into the singing voices of untrained boys and girls with reference to the English choral tradition, Nick Graham
138Voice change and the professional girl chorister, Sarah MacDonald and Lucy Poole
155You want Mädchen in a Knabenchor? A semantic or an existential crisis? Martin Ashley
166The Culture Code: implications for choral leadership, Liz Garnett
182Interactive music and the public internet; why milliseconds matter, David Lake

2023

205Voices and instruments: the period-performance dilemma, Nicholas Kenyon
210Singing Renaissance choral music then and now, Simon Ravens
226The phrased notation system: a new beginning for Renaissance polyphony? Kevin O’Carroll

2024

243Small choirs, big boys and Bach, Martin Ashley
254Bel Canto and the boy soprano, Stephen Beet