journal of interdisciplinary music studies

fall 2007, volume 1, issue 2, art. #071204, pp. 62-91  

 

Characterisation of Voice Quality in Western Lyrical Singing:

from Teachers’ Judgements to Acoustic Descriptions

 

Batı Müziğindeki Lirik Şarkı İcrasında Ses Niteliğinin Tanımlanması:

Eğitmen Yargılarından Akustik Betimleyicilere

 

Maëva Garnier¹, Nathalie Henrich², Michèle Castellengo¹, David Sotiropoulos¹ , Danièle Dubois¹

 

¹LAM-IJLRA  (CNRS UMR 7604 , Université Paris VI, Ministère de la Culture)

²GIPSA-Lab (CNRS UMR5216 - INPG, Univ. Stendhal, Univ. Joseph Fourier)

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AUDIO SAMPLES:

Sound examples of the voices heard and described by the singing teacher in the first perceptual test, extracted from Henrich 2001            
(see Part "3 Semantic and Psycholinguistic Exploration of Voice Quality" pp.68):
-"normal" voice of the first singer                                   
(PerceptualTest-S1-normal.mp3)
-"normal" voice of the second singer                                   
(PerceptualTest-S2-normal.mp3)
-"normal" voice of the third singer                                   
(PerceptualTest-S3-normal.mp3)
-example of modified voice quality produced by the first singer       
(PerceptualTest-S1-modif.mp3)
-example of modified voice quality produced by the second singer 

(PerceptualTest-S2-modif.mp3)
-example of modified voice quality produced by the third singer     
(PerceptualTest-S3-modif.mp3)

Extracts of the database built for the acoustical exploration of voice quality (Sotiropoulos 2004) 

(see Part "4 Acoustic Exploration of Voice Quality" pp.74 )
-"normal" voice of of S1                                             
(AcousticCorpus-S1-normal.mp3)
-"anterior" voice of S1 (as juged by himself)                          
(AcousticCorpus-S1-anterior.mp3)
-"posterior" voice of S1 (as juged by himself)                          
(AcousticCorpus-S1-posterior.mp3)
-"very nasal" voice of S1 (as juged by himself)                       
(AcousticCorpus-S1-verynasal.mp3)

-"normal" voice of of S2                                             
(AcousticCorpus-S2-normal.mp3)
-"anterior" voice of S2 (as juged by himself)                          
(AcousticCorpus-S2-anterior.mp3)
-"posterior" voice of S2 (as juged by himself)                          
(AcousticCorpus-S2-posterior.mp3)
-"very nasal" voice of S2 (as juged by himself)                       
(AcousticCorpus-S2-verynasal.mp3)

-"normal" voice of of S3                                             
(AcousticCorpus-S3-normal.mp3)
-"anterior" voice of S3 (as juged by himself)                          
(AcousticCorpus-S3-anterior.mp3)
-"posterior" voice of S3 (as juged by himself)                          
(AcousticCorpus-S3-posterior.mp3)
-"very nasal" voice of S3 (as juged by himself)                       
(AcousticCorpus-S3-verynasal.mp3)