Talk:Voice teacher

Comments 2010[edit]

This can become a fine article with some work; I'll try to work on it in the coming months. I hope it won't be merged with voice pedagogy, since they are not the same subject. A voice teacher uses pedagogical concepts, of course, but they should be covered separately here. Mugregg (talk) 19:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)Mugregg[reply]

With respect, I think there's another problem here in that the term 'voice teacher' is also commonly used to refer to folks who teach actors. I don't know if separate entries are appropriate, or disambiguation, or whatever, but the term is by no means confined or delimited as may be unintentionally suggested by the present entry. AtomikWeasel (talk) 21:32, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong title or wrong subject matter?[edit]

Per AtomikWeasel's comment above, the name/topic of this article is not quite right. This article is wholly on teaching singers, not voice training for actors or other types of public speakers. Yet they too, are called "voice teachers". In fact, this article explictly defines "Voice teacher" as "singing teacher". Meanwhile, it has much duplicate content with "Vocal coach", which likewise concentrates exclusively on singing and explictly defines "Vocal coach" as "a music teacher who instructs singers on how to improve their singing technique, take care of and develop their voice, and prepare for the performance of a song or other work." But the term "vocal coach" is likewise not restricted to singing. See this for its use in theatre.

Both of them are completely unreferenced and full of original research and personal opinion and spam magnets for voice teachers/vocal coaches to hawk their wares via external links, e.g. [1], [2]. Not sure what to do about it, but we currently have two shoddy articles on virtually the same narrowly defined subject which is not necessarily reflected in the titles. Voceditenore (talk) 12:35, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have written a disambiguation page: Voice teacher (disambiguation), and will link it to the other articles, and work on the articles as well.Mugregg (talk) 21:20, 13 December 2011 (UTC)Mugregg[reply]