The insertion of physical exercise in the dynamics of vocal warm-up and its effect from the perspective of acoustic analysis in choristers.
choir, vocal warm-up, body warm-up, acoustics, music, physical education, speech therapy.
The objectctive of this study is to evaluate the inclusion of physical warm-up in the practice of vocal warm-up, analyzing its effects from an acoustic perspective. There are few studies relating body warm-up to vocal warm-up in choir singers. This experimental and quantitative study analyzed the results of applying three types of warm-up: vocal, body and combined, and their correlation with objective measures obtained through vocal acoustic analysis. Twentytwo choristers of both sexes took part. Vocal recordings were made before and after the warm-up, focusing on acoustic parameters of sustained vowels ([a] and [e]), counting from 1 to 11, fundamental frequency, variability in semitones and the AVQI multiparametric measure, validated for Portuguese, also including isolated measures such as Slope (dB), Tilt (dB), Jitter (%), Shimmer (%), HNR (dB), HF Noise (dB) and CPPS (dB). The research, involving musicians from the choirs of the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ) and the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), was carried out in four stages, including questionnaires, anthropometric measurements and vocal recordings under different warm-up conditions. The results indicated that the addition of isolated or combined body exercises does not provide significant benefits in relation to the warm-up modality for singers. The results of this study do not support the hypothesis that body warm-up can influence the acoustic measures of vocal warm-up. Although the findings reveal no significant differences in the relationship between the vocal warm-up methods used, it is important to consider the biological uniqueness and previous singing experience of the participants in future studies.