Voice Classification by Phonetography: A Manual for Voice Testing, Education, Therapy and Research
This book provides an essential guideline for phoniatricians, ENT specialists, speech and voice therapists, vocal coaches, singing teachers, choir conductors, actors and singers, and everyone who is involved with phenomenon of the voice.
As this text shows, phonetographic analysis of the speaking and singing voice has been proven to be of great help for students and teachers of drama and singing education.
The book presents an age-related and gender-specific pattern card of the human voice, based on a step-by-step analysis of a database of more than 1000 phonetograms. This pattern card enables a basic voice classification of any subject, providing a guideline with useful information for voice education and voice therapy, as demonstrated by a selection of 152 figures and 72 tables, including some exceptional longitudinal phonetograms of actors and singers across a wide age range.
Hugo Lycke has worked as vocal coach and speech and voice therapist for many European music conservatoires and opera and musical theatre companies. He specialized in casting and testing, education and voice therapy, and obtained Master’s degrees in Leisure Studies, Theatre Sciences, Dance Research, and Gerontology from the Free University of Brussels. Intrigued by the need for an objective method of voice classification in singers, he wrote his doctoral thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, proving for the first time the existence of three natural voice groups for each gender. He has presented his new methodology of voice classification at more than 100 conferences, seminars, and workshops in different countries.
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