Acoustic comparison of soprano solo and choir singing.
Five soprano singers were recorded while singing similar texts in both choir and solo modes of performance. A comparison of long-term-average spectra of similar passages in both modes indicates that subjects used different tactics to achieve somewhat higher concentrations of energy in the 2- to 4-kHz range when singing in the solo mode. It is likely that this effect resulted, at least in part, from a slight change of the voice source from choir to solo singing. The subjects used slightly more vibrato when singing in the solo mode.
Rossing
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Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
Sundberg
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Ternström
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011312:Pressure; D013016:Sound; D014831:Voice; D014833:Voice Quality