The relationship between vocal pitch-matching skills and pitch discrimination skills in untrained accurate and inaccurate singers

Journal of Voice

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 534-543

  Watts, Christopher ^a   Moore, Robert ^b   McCaghren, Kacia ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental frequency control; Pitch matching; Pitch perception; Singing talent

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PITCH; SKILL; SPEECH; VOICE;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 27844495736     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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