Formant Tuning in Byzantine Chant
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چکیده
We present an investigation of formant tuning in the context of the Byzantine Ecclesiastic chant voice. The recordings selected for the analysis are part of the DAMASKINOS prototype acoustic corpus of Byzantine Ecclesiastic voice. More specifically, we analyzed recordings from 10 different chanters in ascending musical scales of the diatonic genre, for the /a/ vowel. The method of analysis included a semi-automatic segmentation of the audio material, extraction of the measurements in PRAAT and the final post-processing in MATLAB. Results show clear evidence of formant tuning in at least six of the chanters, proving that the technique is in use by the modern Byzantine music performers.
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