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When I was five, my parents started me on violin. What happened next is a little hazy, but my memory is that my big sister soon switched from piano to violin and was better at both than me within weeks. She's now the concertmaster of the Omaha symphony, so I suppose I ought to let that one go. I stumbled along with choir (I had a really pretty boy soprano voice) and piano, had a great time being an average teenage classical bass player, and picked up the guitar as I headed towards high school graduation in Nashville. I learned to mimic James Taylor's voice and adequately finger-pick some of his songs, laboriously memorizing chord charts from a songbook. I kept at it in hopes it might help me pick up girls, because trying to talk to them as a pudgy weird nerd didn't seem to be going so well.
My weight class: I'm a good singer, an adequate rhythm guitarist, and a solid basic rock bass player. I prefer to play my acoustic-electric bass, deploying a bow for the deeper resonance and simplicity. I like engaging with the audience when things are going well. I get sulky when the sound technology goes wonky. It helped when I figured out I could do something that was good without trying to be the best guitarist in the room (in any room I'm in, that's usually Adam Stemple, who not coincidentally is in my new band).
The second part, music and mental health, has been more complicated. A few years ago I quit my job as a history professor and moved back to the Twin Cities. It was the right move for my family, but involved turning my back on a decade of teaching and the dream of a tenured full professor job. I also had to quit my Chicago-area band, losing not only the gigs, but the friendships. I knew that in the Twin Cities I'd have lots of other musical friends to jam with, which I did and I do. What I didn't know is that I need the work as well as music in order to be happy.
I spent 2017 and 2018 sinking deep into a joyless fugue. I've had them before, but powered my way through with liquor, friendship, and denial. This one was tougher to crack, even when my wife found work and the winter gave way to spring, I couldn't locate any joy even at the best of times. Even when playing music. One day in June, I woke to the news that the writer Anthony Bourdain had killed himself. I had just read a report from the CDC on spiking suicide rates, especially among middle-aged white men who had never received any mental health-related diagnosis. "That's me," I thought, and went to the doctor. It's been almost year. I'm still here and doing a lot of work as I get better.
Last October, my friends Dee and Ann started working with me on a new band. We had no goal. We had no gigs. We just started the work. Later, Adam joined. Along with therapy, drugs, more exercise, less booze, and better communication with my loved ones (nothing is ever simple), practice, rather than just jamming with friends, clicked a final piece of my recovery into place. In the work, building a setlist, teaching songs. I'm still loving jamming with friends, but I need the work of music to keep me on track.
This essay is not a prescription. Your art may fill or leave voids in ways different from mine. I highly recommend working mental health professionals (to which everyone should have access as a basic principle of health justice). But the second and third set of my last gig, at the Dubliner Pub the day before St. Pat's, had a kind of magic. Every song, every note, even the ones I missed, was perfect. The work and the joy came together to keep me fully in the moment, but not in a drugged or absent way. It was me, whole. It's good to be back.
David Perry is a freelance journalist covering politics, history, disability, and education. He is also the Senior Academic Advisor to the History Department of the University of Minnesota. You can find him @LollardFish and thismess.net. His band Purgatory Creek play The Dubliner on Saturday, May 4. The show is free.
Call to Mind and Minnesota Public Radio are undertaking a month-long series of special programs and activities designed to foster new conversations to increase understanding of mental health.
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to assess the status of vocal (KayPentax APM) and noise (Etymotic ER200D dosimeter) dosages acquired by an elementary school music teacher (N=1) during waking hours across (a) a full teaching week (5 days) and (b) 2 weekends (4 days), one prior to and one and after the teaching week. Various studies to date have examined vocal dosages acquired by music teachers. Other studies have analyzed noise dosages acquired by music teachers. No study, however, has yet examined vocal and noise dosages acquired simultaneously by the same music teacher. Primary findings indicated: (a) mean vocal distance doses and noise doses acquired during teaching hours exceeded doses acquired during non-teaching hours; (b) the most elevated Dd and noise dosage levels occurred during choir rehearsals and sixth grade general music classes; (c) the participant exceeded recommended NIOSH noise doses on 4 of the 5 teaching days. (d) comparison of noise dose percentage and vocal dose percentage during teaching hours indicated, overall, that voice dose percentage appeared to align directionally with noise dose percentage; (e) however, there were some class periods where vocal dose percentage exceeded noise dose percentage. These results were discussed in terms of proactive voice and hearing care for elementary school music teachers, possible relationships between acquired vocal and noise doses, limitations of the study, and suggestions for future research.
The purpose of this study was (a) to determine the effects, if any, of 3 simulated heel height conditions (0.0 in., 1.5 in., 3.0 in.) on postural (head position, jaw opening) and acoustical (LTAS, dB SPL) measures of university female voice majors (N = 35) in 2 conditions (silence, singing sustained [α] and [i] vowels on each pitch of a 2-octave A-major scale [A3-A5]), and then to (b) assess selected relationships between heel height behavior conditions, postural data, and acoustical data.
Data analyses yielded multiple significant interactions between independent variables and indicated significant, moderate to strong, positive relationships between (a) pitch and dB SPL, (b) pitch and jaw opening, (c) jaw opening and behavior, (d) jaw opening and head position angle 1, and (e) jaw opening and dB SPL, and significant, moderate, negative correlations between (a) jaw opening and vowel, and (b) heel height and head position angle 1.
Review of Literature: Current dyspnea research shows a need for more investigation of nonpharmacologic interventions that promote self-efficacy, address multiple dimensions of dyspnea, and help disrupt dyspnea-anxiety cycles. Clinical studies and emerging information on the neurophysiological effects of music show evidence and potential mechanisms for music to enhance dyspnea self-management strategies.
Methods: The researchers recruited participants receiving home care occupational therapy for dyspnea management. Participants received an audio compact disc with verbal cues for guided relaxation and breathing techniques, with or without supportive music based on random assignment. Participants were asked to complete Modified Borg Dyspnea Scales for dyspnea intensity and unpleasantness (MBDS-I and MBDS-U) and a Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS) before and after each practice period, as well as a Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-Item Scale (SECD6) at the beginning and end of the treatment period.
Results: Three participants initiated the study, and data was collected for one participant with COPD (n=1). The pre-treatment SECD6 reflected moderate self-efficacy, and a posttreatment SECD6 was not collected. The MBDS-I, MBDS-U, and SUDS showed consistent decreases between pre- and post-intervention (mean decrease of 1.4 points in dyspnea intensity, 1.9 points in dyspnea unpleasantness, and 3 points in subjective distress).
Dillon was the first to provide a highly detailed, step-by-step approach to developing and teaching string and orchestra programs at all levels in her book, How toDesign and Teach a Successful School String and Orchestra Program. This text was the only one available at the time to provide a comprehensive approach to every aspect of the public school orchestra program. She then carried the process one step further in offering the Strictly Strings method book series, which contained a sequential approach to teaching beginning-level strings in a heterogeneous classroom setting.
At Wichita State University, Jacquelyn Dillon built a string music education program that gained national recognition as being on the forefront of change for teacher training procedures. It was through her work, that Wichita State University became known as one of a few select institutions that were producing quality string music educators in the United States during this time.
Jacquelyn Dillon is one of many individuals who have shaped the field of string music education to its current form. Her lasting contributions and resulting influence on the profession have made Jacquelyn Dillon deserving of a place in the written history of string music education in the United States.
The purpose of this study was to assess acoustically (long-term average spectra and multi-dimensional voice profile) and perceptually (participant perceived phonatory ease and expert listening panel) the effect of wearing a necktie on male singing in choral (Experiment 1) and solo (Experiment 2) settings. No study to date has assessed the potential effects of wearing neckties in both choral and solo vocal settings. Among primary results: (a) statistically significant differences in spectral energy between performances with and without a necktie in both the choral (2-4 kHz) and solo (0-10 kHz) settings, (b) increases in mean jitter and shimmer percentage measurements of solo singers with necktie, (c) significant reduction in perceived phonatory ease when singing while wearing a necktie in choral and solo settings, and (d) listener preferences for singing without a necktie in solo and homophonic choral settings. Results were discussed in terms of limitations of the study, suggestions for future research, and implications for voice pedagogy.
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