Resonance strategies for the belting style: Results of a single female subject study

Journal of Voice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 194-204

  Bestebreurtje, Martine E ^a   Schutte, Harm K ^b  

^a University of Groningen ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belting; Chest register; Female voice; Formant tuning; Resonance strategies; Singing; Vowel modifications

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SINGING; SOUND INTENSITY; VOICE; VOWEL;

EID: 0034047967     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(00)80027-2     Document Type: Article

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