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These pieces originally appeared in The Journal of Singing magazine, the official journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. The NCVS gratefully acknowledges its editors for permission to reproduce Dr. Titze's columns.

These are listed in alphabetical order. Click here to view them in date published order.

Date Published Article Title
1994 May/June A Few Thoughts About Longevity in Singing
2004 May/June A Historic Merger of Art and Science
1998 Mar/Apr A Modern-Day Vocologist
1997 Nov/Dec Are the Corner Vowels Like Primary Colors?
2002 Jan/Feb Cells in Vibration:  How Happy are They?
1991 Nov/Dec Chaos in Vocal Fold Vibration
2000 May/June Choir Warm-ups: How Effective are They?
1994 Sept/Oct Comments on "Jurassic Squawks"
1995 Jan/Feb Comments on Kiwi Electrician's Scream
1997 Mar/Apr Control of Movement in our Body
1993 Mar/Apr Critical Periods of Vocal Change: Advanced Age
1992 Nov/Dec Critical Periods of Vocal Change: Early Childhood
1993 Jan/Feb Critical Periods of Voice Change: Puberty
2001 Sept/Oct Edward Bryom's Reply to "Choir Warm-Ups: How Effective Are They?"
1999 Sept/Oct Engineering Vocal Fold Tissues
1998 Jan/Feb Five Ingredients of a Physiologically Gifted Voice
2000 Mar/Apr Fritz Wunderlich: The James Dean Among Tenors
1992 Mar/Apr Glottal Resistance
2002 Nov/Dec Glottal Valving - co-authored with Oren L. Brown
2005 Nov/Dec How Loud Is My Voice Inside My Mouth and Throat?
2002 May/June How to Use the Flow-Resistant Straws
2003 Mar/Apr Is There Evidence of a Second Singer's Formant? co-authored with Sun Min Jin
1995 Mar/Apr Keeping it Moist
2002 Sept/Oct Laryngeal Muscle Activity in a Tonal Scale: Comparing Speech-like to Song-like Productions in a Mezzo-soprano - co-authored with Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Eileen M. Finnegan, Henry Hoffman
1996 Jan/Feb Lip and Tongue Trills - What do They Do for Us?
1992 Jan/Feb Messa Di Voce
2003 May/June More About Resonant Voice:  Chasing the Formants But Staying Behind Them
1996 Mar/Apr More on Messa Di Voce
1999 May/June Natural Frequencies in Our Bodies
1997 May/June Noise in the Voice
1997 Sept/Oct Normal Modes of Vibration
1998 May/June On the Springiness and Stickiness of Vocal Fold Tissues
2005 Mar/Apr Overlap of Hearing and Voicing Ranges in Singing - co-authored with Eric J. Hunter
1993 Nov/Dec Raised Versus Lowered Larynx Singing
2002 Mar/Apr Raising Lung Pressure and Pitch In Vocal Warm-Ups:  The Use of Flow-Resistant Straws - co-authored with Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Eileen M. Finnegan, Sanyukta Jaiswal
2001 Nov/Dec Should Vocal Training Follow Vocal Development in Childhood?
1994 Nov/Dec Singing: A Story of Training Entrained Oscillators
2005 May/June Space in the Throat and Associated Vocal Qualities
1995 Sept/Oct Speaking Vowels Versus Singing Vowels
1995 May/June The Decade of Imaging
2006 Jan/Feb The F0-F1 Crossover Exercise
1995 Nov/Dec The Lamina Propria of the Vocal Cords
2001 May/June The Larynx and the Ear - How Well Do They Match?
1994 Mar/Apr The Mariachi Voice
1989 Nov/Dec The Physiological Absurdity of Choir Arrangements
1996 May/June The Piriform Sinuses
2004 Mar/Apr The Search for Efficient Voice Production:  Where Is It Leading Us?
1999 Mar/Apr The Use of Low First Formant Vowels and Nasals to Train the Lighter Mechanism
1998 Sept/Oct The Wide Pharynx
1996 Nov/Dec Tibetan Chanting and Harmonic Singing
1994 Jan/Feb Vocal Melt-Down in October/November
1992 May/June Voice Quality: Part I
1992 Sept/Oct Voice Quality: Part II
1984 Mar/Apr Voice Synthesis: Part I
1997 Jan/Feb Voice Transformation
1993 May/June Warm-up Exercises
1993 May/June What Can a Power Spectrum Tell us About the Voice?
1998 Nov/Dec What is a Subharmonic?
2004 Jan/Feb What is Meant by Nonlinear and Interactive in Voice Science?
2004 Sept/Oct What Makes A Voice Acoustically Strong?
1996 Sept/Oct Why Do We Have a Vocal Ligament?

 

 


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