Vocal Pedagogical Methods For Contemporary Commercial Music
Teaching voice within non-classical music is an emerging field. Up to this point, voice teachers have been concentrated within classical methods of singing. It has really only been within the last few years that music conservatories and music programs with universities have begun to embrace other methodologies suitable to other kinds of vocal music. There is currently not one consistent method in approaching non-classical music but several approaches, most of them not very systematic. Probably the most well thought of method is Jeannette LoVetri's method known as Somatic Voicework. LoVetri teaches in the graduate vocal music department at Shenandoah University, which is the only university to offer graduate music degrees in Contemporary Commercial Music.
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