Pitch matching accuracy of trained singers, untrained subjects with talented singing voices, and untrained subjects with nontalented singing voices in conditions of varying feedback

Journal of Voice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-194

  Watts, Christopher R ^a   Murphy, Jessica ^a   Barnes Burroughs, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; Pitch control; Singing talent

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHONATION; PITCH; SINGING; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0037980389     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(03)00023-7     Document Type: Article

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