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“For reasons we don’t yet A ccording to recent scholar-
ship, singers may experience
understand, the tendency to cardiac, respiratory, and even
brain-rhythm synchronization while
synchronize is one of the most
performing together. For the field of
2
pervasive drives in the universe.” 1 choral singing, synchronization sits
at the heart of the art. Conductors
and singers work to wed gesture to
sound, breathe together, unify vowel
shapes, match tonal, rhythmic, and
articulative execution, and, in some
cases, move together. Terms like
“blend” and “balance” typify the
choral language that seeks out per-
fect synchronization. Perhaps the
trickiest of these elements to unify,
and therefore most controversial, is
vibrato.
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