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Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI
Tone quality termed “dark” is an aesthetically important property of Western classical voice performance and has been associated with lowered formant frequencies, lowered larynx, and widened pharynx. The present study uses real-time magnetic resonance imaging with synchronous audio recordings to inv...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8273971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34291230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0005109 |
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author | Lynn, Elisabeth Narayanan, Shrikanth S. Lammert, Adam C. |
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description | Tone quality termed “dark” is an aesthetically important property of Western classical voice performance and has been associated with lowered formant frequencies, lowered larynx, and widened pharynx. The present study uses real-time magnetic resonance imaging with synchronous audio recordings to investigate dark tone quality in four professionally trained sopranos with enhanced ecological validity and a relatively complete view of the vocal tract. Findings differ from traditional accounts, indicating that labial narrowing may be the primary driver of dark tone quality across performers, while many other aspects of vocal tract shaping are shown to differ significantly in a performer-specific way. |
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spelling | pubmed-82739712021-07-19 Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI Lynn, Elisabeth Narayanan, Shrikanth S. Lammert, Adam C. JASA Express Lett Speech Communication Tone quality termed “dark” is an aesthetically important property of Western classical voice performance and has been associated with lowered formant frequencies, lowered larynx, and widened pharynx. The present study uses real-time magnetic resonance imaging with synchronous audio recordings to investigate dark tone quality in four professionally trained sopranos with enhanced ecological validity and a relatively complete view of the vocal tract. Findings differ from traditional accounts, indicating that labial narrowing may be the primary driver of dark tone quality across performers, while many other aspects of vocal tract shaping are shown to differ significantly in a performer-specific way. Acoustical Society of America 2021-07 2021-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8273971/ /pubmed/34291230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0005109 Text en © 2021 Author(s). 2691-1191/2021/1(7)/075202/8 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Speech Communication Lynn, Elisabeth Narayanan, Shrikanth S. Lammert, Adam C. Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI |
title | Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI |
title_full | Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI |
title_fullStr | Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI |
title_full_unstemmed | Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI |
title_short | Dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: Insights from real-time MRI |
title_sort | dark tone quality and vocal tract shaping in soprano song production: insights from real-time mri |
topic | Speech Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8273971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34291230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0005109 |
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