Musical Theater and Opera Singing-Why So Different? A Study of Subglottal Pressure, Voice Source, and Formant Frequency Characteristics

Journal of Voice

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 533-540

  Björkner, Eva ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Closed quotient; EGG; Formant frequencies; H1 H2; Inverse filtering; Musical theater singing; Opera; Subglottal pressure; Voice source

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; SINGING; SOUND PRESSURE; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LARYNX; MALE; MUSIC; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 50249117740     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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