What do male singers mean by modal and falsetto register? An investigation of the glottal voice source

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-83

  Salomão, Gláucia Laís ^a,b   Sundberg, Johan ^b  

^a PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flow glottogram; Inverse filtering; Singing voice; Vocal registers; Voice source

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; VOCAL CORD; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AIR PRESSURE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PHONETICS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESPIRATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68449104759     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430902879918     Document Type: Article

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