Formant frequencies of bass singers

Acoustic comparison of voice use in solo and choir singing.

An experiment was carried out in which eight bass/baritone singers were recorded while singing in both choral and solo modes. Together with their own voice, they heard the sound of the rest of the choir and a piano accompaniment, respectively. The recordings were analyzed in several ways, including computation of long-time-average spectra for each passage, analysis of the sound levels in the fr...

An acoustic comparison of alto and tenor voices

Spectra of vowels sung a t identical pitches by two tenor voices and two alto voices a r e compared. The formant frequencies and the source spectra a r e studied by matching the spectra on a terminal analogue of the vocal tract. As regards the source spectrum the alto voices show a higher relative amplitude of the fundamental than the tenor voices. As regards the formants, ari apparent differen...

Formant frequency adjustment in barbershop quartet singing

In this master thesis, the formant frequencies of an excellent male Swedish barbershop quartet were examined. The choice of topic was based on several factors that ought to make the tuning of the formant frequencies extremely important in the strive for the characteristic barbershop sound. The quartet was recorded, singing parts of the song 'Paper Moon'. In the recordings, each singer had an in...

Preferences for Strong or Weak Singer's Formant Resonance in Choral Tone Quality

The purpose of this study was to assess the preferences of undergraduate college student auditors (N = 139) with respect to a choral sound produced in an anechoic chamber that included a fully resonate singer’s formant and choral sound produced in the same chamber using a weaker singer’s formant resonance. An ensemble comprised of graduate voice students (N = 8) sang four choral music excerpts....

X-ray study of articulation and formant frequencies in two female singers