Relating objective measurements to expert evaluation of voice quality in western classical singing: Critical perceptual parameters

Journal of Voice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 182-196

  Ekholm, Elizabeth ^a,c   Papagiannis, Georgios C ^b   Chagnon, Françoise P ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Classical singing; Vocal performance; Voice evaluation; Voice perception; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTION; SINGING; VOICE;

EID: 0031781526     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(98)80038-6     Document Type: Article

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