Aerodynamic and acoustical measures of speech, operatic, and broadway vocal styles in a professional female singer

Journal of Voice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-297

  Stone Jr , R E ^a,c   Cleveland, Thomas F ^a   Sundberg, P Johan ^b   Prokop, Jan ^c  

^a Vanderbilt Voice Center   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Broadway singing; Closed quotient; Formants; Glottal compliance; Glottal leakage; LTAS; Operatic singing; Source spectrum; Subglottal pressure; Vibrato

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSONANT; LOUDNESS; PHONATION; PITCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGING; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

EID: 0041337006     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0892-1997(03)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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