Opera Singing and Fictional Truth

Vibrato Characteristics and Frequency Histogram Envelopes in Beijing Opera Singing

Cross-Version Singing Voice Detection in Classical Opera Recordings

In the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), the automated detection of the singing voice within a given music recording constitutes a challenging and important research problem. In this study, our goal is to find those segments within a classical opera recording, where one or several singers are active. As our main contributions, we first propose a novel audio feature that extends a stat...

Study of the Similarity between Linguistic Tones and Melodic Pitch Contours in Beijing Opera Singing

Features of linguistic tone contours are important factors that shape the distinct melodic characteristics of different genres of Chinese opera. In Beijing opera, the presence of a two-dialectal tone system makes the tone-melody relationship more complex. In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven approach to analyze syllable-sized tone-pitch contour similarity in a corpus of Beijing Opera (...

Long-term-average spectrum characteristics of Kunqu Opera singers' speaking, singing and stage speech.

Long-term-average spectrum (LTAS) characteristics were analyzed for ten Kunqu Opera singers, two in each of five roles. Each singer performed singing, stage speech, and conversational speech. Differences between the roles and between their performances of these three conditions are examined. After compensating for Leq difference LTAS characteristics still differ between the roles but are simila...

The Status of Truth in Science-Fictional and Scriptural Texts: Captain KirkTM Meets Captain Moroni

Supposition Error: a novel uses several familar science fiction devices (time-travel, spaceflight, alien encounters, etc.) to illustrate for lay persons and students the dynamics of the philosophy of meaning formulated by C.S. Peirce (1839-1914). In this paper I shall use Peirce's framework in an academic context, to compare and contrast my treatment of The Book of Mormon in the novel Suppositi...