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Acoustical properties in inhaling singing : a case-study
A highly experienced versatile female professional singer displaying no apparent vocal complaint, developed inhaling singing, an innovative approach to reverse phonation. Although there are some reports in literature that describe the characteristics of ingressive phonation and sounds, to the best of our knowledge, no reports on actual inhaling singing are available in literature. This paper reports a case study on the acoustical analysis of inhaling singing, comparing this innovative technique with traditional exhaling singing. As this is rather undiscovered territory, we have decided to address several questions: is it possible to match the same pitches using inhaling singing compared to exhaling singing? Is the harmonic structure and energy distribution similar? Is it possible to maintain the same phonation duration in both techniques? Are there differences in volume and tessitura (vocal range)?
This paper, reporting on the experience of one individual, demonstrates that a tessitura can be
mastered in inhaling singing. Spectral analysis reveals a similar frequency distribution in both conditions. However, in inhaling singing the energy of the harmonics is significantly lower for the first 3 overtones, while the maximum phonation time is larger, than in exhaling singing. The singer reports that less effort is required for inhaling singing in the high register. As such, inhaling singing offers new possibilities for vocal performance
The National Singing Programme for primary schools in England: an initial baseline study
The âSing Upâ National Singing Programme for Primary schools in England was launched in November 2007 under the UK Governmentâs âMusic Manifestoâ. âSing Upâ is a four-year programme whose overall aim is to raise the status of singing and increase opportunities for children throughout the country to enjoy singing as part of their everyday lives, in and out of school. As part of the Programmeâs research evaluation, a key focus has been to build an initial picture of singing in Primary schools across England. This information could then be used as a âbaselineâ by which the programmeâs subsequent impact could be judged, including âbeforeâ and âafterâ measures of schools that receive particular âSing Upâ input. This paper reports an overview of key outcomes of first five months of baseline profiling (October, 2007 to February 2008), embracing analyses of the singing behaviours of 3,472 children in 76 Primary schools. These findings are complimented by additional analyses of childrenâs views on singing in and out of school; and the self-efficacy of their class teachersâ (n=90), both as singers and as teachers of singing
Speech and music discrimination: Human detection of differences between music and speech based on rhythm
Rhythm in speech and singing forms one of its basic acoustic components. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the capability of subjects to distinguish between speech and singing when only the rhythm remains as an acoustic cue. For this study we developed a method to eliminate all linguistic components but rhythm from the speech and singing signals. The study was conducted online and participants could listen to the stimuli via loudspeakers or headphones. The analysis of the survey shows that people are able to significantly discriminate between speech and singing after they have been altered. Furthermore, our results reveal specific features, which supported participants in their decision, such as differences in regularity and tempo between singing and speech samples. The hypothesis that music trained people perform more successfully on the task was not proved. The results of the study are important for the understanding of the structure of and differences between speech and singing, for the use in further studies and for future application in the field of speech recognition
Mandarin Singing Voice Synthesis Based on Harmonic Plus Noise Model and Singing Expression Analysis
The purpose of this study is to investigate how humans interpret musical
scores expressively, and then design machines that sing like humans. We
consider six factors that have a strong influence on the expression of human
singing. The factors are related to the acoustic, phonetic, and musical
features of a real singing signal. Given real singing voices recorded following
the MIDI scores and lyrics, our analysis module can extract the expression
parameters from the real singing signals semi-automatically. The expression
parameters are used to control the singing voice synthesis (SVS) system for
Mandarin Chinese, which is based on the harmonic plus noise model (HNM). The
results of perceptual experiments show that integrating the expression factors
into the SVS system yields a notable improvement in perceptual naturalness,
clearness, and expressiveness. By one-to-one mapping of the real singing signal
and expression controls to the synthesizer, our SVS system can simulate the
interpretation of a real singer with the timbre of a speaker.Comment: 8 pages, technical repor
The limerick lullaby project: an intervention to relieve prenatal stress.(Research Unwrapped)
With the festive period looming I felt that the topic of this paper âsinging lullabiesâ resonated with the custom of singing at Christmas time but more than that the joy and peace of singing regardless of the festivity is far reaching. I am not a singer (I wish I was) but people who do sing tell me how up lifting and happy it makes them feel. There can be no doubt that singing and the feel good factor are synonymous with a sense of wellbeing and good health. Indeed, Carolan et al (2011) provide extensive supporting literature of the positive effects of maternal singing and music therapy on infants and of note the benefits to preterm infants within their paper (p2). So I present to you for this issue of research unwrapped a detailed appraisal of the above research paper alongside a warm gesture of respect for those of you who can sing
Singing voice correction using canonical time warping
Expressive singing voice correction is an appealing but challenging problem.
A robust time-warping algorithm which synchronizes two singing recordings can
provide a promising solution. We thereby propose to address the problem by
canonical time warping (CTW) which aligns amateur singing recordings to
professional ones. A new pitch contour is generated given the alignment
information, and a pitch-corrected singing is synthesized back through the
vocoder. The objective evaluation shows that CTW is robust against
pitch-shifting and time-stretching effects, and the subjective test
demonstrates that CTW prevails the other methods including DTW and the
commercial auto-tuning software. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of
the proposed method in a practical, real-world scenario
Spiritual aspects of operatic singing: Klaus Florian Vogt
The singing of German tenor Klaus Florian Vogt (b. 1970) initially puzzled, and continues to fascinate those who hear his voice on stage and through transmissions and recordings. In this paper Meyer-DinkgrĂ€fe provides a brief biography of Vogt, followed by an account, based on interviews with Vogt (including my own), on how he relates to his major roles, his voice, his acting and experiences with directorâs theatre, his way of preparing for a role in rehearsals and on a day of performance. The paper also discusses how Vogt relates his experience of singing to that of flying a plane, his political views on the need for opera in the regions, his thoughts on the differences between singing in a fully staged opera and an aria recital, how he experiences singing, and the impact on it of orchestra and conductor, magic moments, and anecdotes of unexpected events in performance. These two sections provide sufficient information to allow the readers to form their own image of Vogt. In the third section, I address the reception of Vogtâs voice and singing in the media, and provide a context of spirituality to account further for the exceptional nature of Vogtâs voice and singing; here I also relate information provided in the first two sections to the development and expression of spirituality
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