Professional male singers’ formant strategies for the vowel /a/

Certain spectrum characteristics have been identified as important for register equalization around the male passaggio, an effect ascribed to formant tuning although descriptions of formant tuning diverge. Eight professional singers sang scales including their passaggio range on different vowels, ap...

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Autores: Sundberg, Johan, Gill, Brian P., Lã, Filipa M.B.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repositorio:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/11803
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11803
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:formant tuning
male singers
spectrum
harmonics
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Resumo:Certain spectrum characteristics have been identified as important for register equalization around the male passaggio, an effect ascribed to formant tuning although descriptions of formant tuning diverge. Eight professional singers sang scales including their passaggio range on different vowels, applying two formant tuning strategies as found in (Citation) classical and (Citation) non-classical singing. Formant frequencies were measured using inverse filtering. Results revealed differences between the two strategies. For the classical formant tuning, systematic changes of formant frequencies with pitch were observed. For the highest note sung on /a/, was below the second partial and in the vicinity of the third. Similar spectrum characteristics were achieved by different and values between singers.