...Li Dong; Johan Sundberg; Jiangping Kong Objective: This investigation analyzes flow glottogram and electroglottogram (EGG) parameters as well as the relationship between formant frequencies and partials in two male Kunqu Opera roles, Colorful face (CF) and Old man (OM). Participants and Methods...

...Dosju Doskov; Todor Ivanov; Boyan Boyanov The presence of singer’s high formant (SHF) in singers of different musical styles was investigated. The voices of 10 opera, 8 folk, 4 pop singers and 53 (nonsinging) controls were recorded. The vowel ‘a’ was sung in three different registers. The percent...

... Hospital, Groningen. The Netherlands Toward a Definition of Male 'Head' Register, Passaggio, and 'Cover' in Western Operatic Singing Key Words Passaggio Register Head voice Cover Spectrography Singing voice Singing pedagogy Formant Harmonics Abstract For male singers in the western operatic...

...Dieter Maurer; Theodor Landis The first formant frequency of most German vowels can be ‘oversung’ in the sense of vocalizations with pitch frequencies above F 1 of normal speech. Investigations of sung and synthesized vowels suggested that, with rising F₀, either the vowel loses its identity...

...Manwa L. Ng; Rhoda Chu Objective: The present study determines the acoustical and perceptual differences between alaryngeal and laryngeal speakers of Cantonese in the production of Cantonese vowels. Subjects and Methods: Formant frequencies (F1 and F2) associated with eight Cantonese vowels (/i, y...