Familiarity of an environment prevents song suppression in isolated zebra finches. by Anja T Zai, Diana I Rodrigues, Anna E Stepien, Corinna Lorenz, Nicolas Giret, Iris Adam, Richard H R Hahnloser

“…We find that isolation in an unfamiliar environment reduces singing rate for several days, indicating the presence of an acute stressor. …”
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Joie et deuil dans les Bestiaires des xiie et xiiie siècles : le cygne et le rossignol by Jean-Marie Fritz

“…The nightingale, a bird central to the lyric of oc and oïl, has a complex and ambiguous relationship with joy: it is first of all the bird linked with the spring, immersing the poet in joy; conversely, it is also the one who sings with so much fervor that it dies while singing. …”
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Desdemona’s changing voices: from the “Willow Song” to the “Canzona del Salice” by Chantal Schütz

“…The Willow Song in Shakespeare’s Othello involves a complex intertwining of mimetic processes: a boy actor enacts the female Desdemona, who imitates a maid called Barbary singing an old ditty, while the original singer referred to herself as a singing (or sighing) lover sitting at the foot of a tree. …”
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Innovative Approaches to Teaching Arabic Vocabulary at PQA Elementary School in Malang City: Implementing the BCM Strategy by Halimatus Sa`diyah, Suyuti Suyuti

“…The strategy also sparked students' interest in learning, with 100% participation in singing, 88% in playing, and 75% in storytelling. …”
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Gibbon songs and intergroup dynamics: a community-level network analysis by Luca Morino, Andrew J J MacIntosh

“…Nevertheless, to date no such attempt has been reported. We used data on singing and agonistic interactions among 7 groups of wild siamangs to build the first community-level network for a hylobatid (or a primate) species. …”
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Virtual choir as a kind of digital musical art by Xinbin Fu

“…The article also uses the results of statistical data obtained by other researchers on the psychophysiological impact of singing in real and virtual groups on the well-being of choristers. …”
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Yeats et le mélange des genres : du texte à la scène by Pierre Longuenesse

“…In short, those manifestations of an artistic « hors-champ », far from  threatening the drama, become on the contrary the core of its expression, as a new power is, on stage, devoted to the Verb : the extra-ordinary power to arise the pneuma of singing as well as the rhythm of the dancing body.…”
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“Thank you, God-pleasing ones”: the ministry of church singers of the Perm diocese in the second half of the 1960s — early 1980s by Sapsay Andrey, Archpriest

“…In the early 1980s, after the weakening of ideological influence, a gradual revival of church singing in parishes began. Thanks to the memoirs of Archimandrite Lev (Akhidov), singers V. …”
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Solmisationssysteme in El cantor instruido von Manuel Cavaza. Ein Fallbeispiel zur Methodenvielfalt im 18. Jahrhundert by Luis Ramos

“…According to this source, a well-informed singing teacher at that time had to be a musical polyglot.…”
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Thrush nightingales adjust the peak frequency and structure of their songs in response to different types of experimental noise by Michał Budka

“…In this study, I experimentally investigated whether male thrush nightingales (Luscinia luscinia) adjust their singing rate, song frequency, and song type in response to different types of artificial sounds. …”
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“This Land Is Your Land”: A Note on America as a Nation of “Varied Carols” by Heinrich Detering

“… Modern American literature starts with the sound of voices singing: “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear”. …”
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USAGE OF COMPUTERISED MEANS IN VOCAL ASSESSMENT by Ana RUSU

“…One of our objectives represents the collection of information regarding changes occurring in singing voice as a result of professional training. …”
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Псалтирь царя Давида Симеона Полоцкого в контексте паралитургической и парафрастической традиции XVI–XVII вв.... by Żanna Niekraszewicz-Karotkaja

“…The King David’s Psalter of Symeon is evaluated as a result of the interaction of the European book tradition of creating poetic paraphrases of biblical texts and the East Slavic singing culture. The functioning of this culture from the end of the 16th century and especially in the 17th century was greatly influenced by Polish spiritual songs (first of all, the poetic paraphrases of the psalms of Jan Kochanowski), as well as by the increased interest in polyphonic singing thanks to Nikolai Diletsky. …”
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Effect of Vocal Nerve Section on Song and ZENK Protein Expression in Area X in Adult Male Zebra Finches by Congshu Liao, Dongfeng Li

“…ZENK expression in vocal nuclei is associated with singing behavior. Area X is an important nucleus for learning and stabilizing birdsong. …”
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LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF MUSICALLY GIFTED SCHOOLGIRLS by Svetlana N. Loseva

“…Regular long singing trainings promote formation of cogitative operations: active development of divergent, rational and logical thinking and intelligence in general, and also acquisition of skills of a self-assessment. …”
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Goal-directed vocal planning in a songbird by Anja T Zai, Anna E Stepien, Nicolas Giret, Richard HR Hahnloser

“…Can they, based on experienced mismatch with a known target, plan the necessary changes to recover the target in a practice-free manner without intermittently singing? In adult zebra finches, we drive the pitch of a song syllable away from its stable (baseline) variant acquired from a tutor, then we withdraw reinforcement and subsequently deprive them of singing experience by muting or deafening. …”
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Survivre par l’écrit chez les ecclésiastiques rouennais du XVe siècle by Vincent Tabbagh

“…Their tombs were often modest, there were few inscriptions, but the canons had their names inscribed in an obituary in order to obtain singing in the cathedral choir on the anniversary of their death, while amongst the elite clergy the sophistication of wills and the gift of books expressed the development of a self consciousness which was directly linked to the quest of salvation by memory and prayers of the living.…”
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“those terrible songs”: Laura E. Richards’s Ditties and the Education of Boys by Ralph J. Poole

“…Songs—singing and composing—were a staple in Laura Richards’s life. …”
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Les oratorios bibliques de Haendel ou « ll faut l’entendre pour le croire » by Joël Richard

“…Examples taken from Saul, Joshua, Belshazzar, Israel in Egypt and Samson will show how the complex and varied processes of (re)writing the librettos from their original biblical source often provided Handel with literary pauses, or even “blanks”, which he more than fully filled with moments of “pure” musical experimentation: when singing is heard off stage, or when voices are simply heard no more, sounds do become meaning and hearing is truly believing.…”
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