A study of the communication between the conductor and the chorists in polyphonic choirs of different structures and purposes.

This research analyzes the communication between the conductor and the chorists in polyphonic choirs of different structures and purposes, as well as the effect that differences in structure have on this communication; it pinpoints and determines the strongest and weakest communicative behaviours in choirs, aiming at improving the formers by making suggestions in accordance to the similarities and divergences found.While realising this work, the state-of-play of the conductors? communication with the chorists and vice-versa has been particularly established, hence generally establishing the state-of-play of communication within choirs. To do so, a poll study was run where the same questionnaire has been used for both chorists and conductors.The qualitative data of this study has been gathered through the ?Conductor and Chorists Communication Poll? set up bu the researcher herself and according to the ?documentative surveying? method. The analysis of the data has been done with the support of the SPSS 15.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) programme and in order to check whether there was a significant variation between the result points of the data?s analysis, the one way use analysis of varience (One way ANOVA) has been applied.Choirs of different structures and purposes constitute the survey population of this study whilst its target population is constituted of the chorists and the conductors of one professional polyphonic choir, one amateur polyphonic choir, and one pedagogical polyphonic choir. This population is also the study?s sample.Based on the outcome of the research, the significant similarities and divergences of communication within the pedagogical, the professional and the amateur polyphonic choirs have been evaluated; and the strongest and weakest communicative behaviours have been exhibited. Eventually, some suggestions have been made with respect to faults detected, aiming at contributing to the improvement of in-choir communication.