摘要：Background in Music Performance. Previous research proposes a relationship between respiration and
the communicative processes of dramatic expression in operatic singing. Controlled respiration is an
essential component in operatic singing, providing the singer with support for a proper production of tone
and an important factor in the structuring of melodic phrases. Respiratory regulation relates directly to the
effective execution of expressive components of singing performance, including timbral variations,
paralinguistic features, and expressive markings such as dynamic variations and messa di voce. While
respiration is an automatic process controlled by the respiratory center of the nervous system, the rate,
depth and rhythm of breathing can be modified unconsciously by mental emotions or consciously by
different breathing patterns. Both processes are nonlinguistic methods with which a singer is able to
communicate the expressive musical intention of a vocal composition. As such, they may be used as
devices to reveal emotional subtexts and the expressive intentionality of the vocal performance
