The Singer's Voice Range Profile: Female Professional Opera Soloists

Journal of Voice

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 410-426

  Lamarche, Anick ^a   Ternström, Sten ^a   Pabon, Peter ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Opera; Performance; Phonetogram; Physiological; Singers; Voice range profile

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MUSICIAN; PERFORMANCE; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECORDING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE RANGE PROFILE; ADULT; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH REHABILITATION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PHONATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954088355     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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