Choral Singing: an Interdisciplinary View from Music Education

Abstract

This article analyzes the benefits that choral singing brings to education in general and music education in particular. Under this aim are examined numerous scientific studies from medical, ethnomusicology, and psychology, that confirm the positive aspects that choral singing brings to education. Thus, this paper provides a comprehensive bibliography, classified and selected for that purpose, with special attention to investigations of recent years. In order to address the issue as clearly as possible, we have divided the work into two sections. First, the benefits that choral singing brings to general education, from medical, psychosocial and interdisciplinary studies are considered. Second, the positive aspects of choral practice for music education, from aesthetics, psychology and medicine are addressed.