Resonatory Properties in Professional Tenors Singing Above the Passaggio
Resonatory Properties in Professional Tenors Singing Above the Passaggio
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DOI:
10.3813/aaa.918945
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发表时间:
2016-03-01
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通讯作者:
Richter, Bernhard
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作者:
Echternach, Matthias;Birkholz, Peter;Richter, Bernhard
Introduction: The question of formant tuning in male professional voices has been a matter of discussion for many years.Material and Methods: In this study four very successful Western classically trained tenors of different repertoire were analysed. They sang a scale on the vowel conditions /a,e,i,o,u/ from the pitch C4 (250 Hz) to A4 (440 Hz) in their stage voice avoiding a register shift to falsetto. Formant frequencies were calculated from inverse filtering of the audio signal and from two-dimensional MRI data.Results: Both estimations showed only for vowel conditions with low first formant (F1) a tuning F1 adjusted to the first harmonic. For other vowel conditions, however, no clear systematic formant tuning was observed.Conclusion: For most vowel conditions the data are not able to support the hypothesis of a systematic formant tuning for professional classically trained tenors.