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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Brunkan, M. C. (2016).  Relationships of a circular singer arm gesture to acoustical and perceptual measures of singing: A motion capture study. Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 34(3), 56 – 62. DOI: 10.1177/8755123314567782.

Johnson, C. M., Williams, L. R., Parisi, J., & Brunkan, M. C. (2016).  Behavioral characteristics and instructional patterns of expert teaching, and the transfer those behaviors into a musical setting: Two case studies. International Journal of Research in Music Education: Research, (34)3, 299 – 310. DOI: 10.1177/0255761415619060.

Brunkan, M. C. (2015).  The effects of singer gestures on acoustic and perceptual measures of solo singing. International Journal of Music and Performing Arts, 3(1), 35 – 45.

Brunkan, M. C. (2014).  Bob and the Bobolinks: Singing to brand a candidate in the 1960 senatorial campaign of Bob Dole. Popular Music and Society, 37, 557–582.

Brunkan, M. C. (2013). The effects of watching three types of conductor gestures and performing varied gestures along with the conductor on measures of singers' intonation and tone quality: A pilot study. International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, 4(2), 37–51.

Daugherty, J. F., & Brunkan, M. C. (2013).  Monkey See, monkey do? The effect of nonverbal conductor lip rounding on visual and acoustic measures of singers’ lip postures.  Journal of Research in Music Education, 60, 345 – 362.

Daugherty, J. F., Manternach, J. N., & Brunkan, M. C. (2013). Acoustic and perceptual measures of SATB choir performances on two types of portable choral riser units in three singer spacing conditions. International Journal of Music Education: Research, 31, 346–358.

Brunkan, M.C. (2013). Children’s and instructor’s perceptions of using VoceVista in a voice exploration session focusing on gentle onset of phonation and articulation of consonants. Proceedings of the Phenomenon of Singing VII International Symposium, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1 – 14.

Daugherty, J. F., & Brunkan, M. C. (2013). The effect of conductor lip rounding on individual singers’ lip postures during sung Latin [u] vowels: Preliminary findings. Proceedings of the Phenomenon of Singing VII International Symposium, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 50 – 58.

Madsen, C. K., Johnson, C. M., Geringer, J. M., Southall, J., & Brunkan, M. C. (2012).  Effects of a brief distraction on perceptions of attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening.  Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Seminar on Research in Music Education, Thessaloniki, Greece, 140 – 147.