Overview Session
print| 1 | An investigation of "ring" in the singing voices of highly trained child performers
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University of York, Electronics, York
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Institute of Education, Music, London
A ‘ringing' quality is a feature of exceptional children's voices in both solo and choral situations within the English Choral Tradition. It has long been accepted that adult professional singers make use of the singer's formant (Sundberg, 1987). This research uses recordings of both boy and girl trebles and an adult female professional soprano. The protocol includes speaking a text, singing a variety of exercises and a Handel aria in a performance venue. This paper will explore the acoustic signal of children's voices qualitatively and quantitatively. The quantitative assessment makes use of long term average spectra to identify spectral peaks with the potential to account for ‘ring'. Spectral modifications made to individual recorded sung vowels enable the specific formant contribution to the ‘ring' to be evaluated perceptually with trained listeners.
Sundberg, J. (1987). The Science of the Singing Voice. Decalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press.
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| 2 | Laryngographically derived Closed Quotient and Acoustic measures of adolescent singers performing in ‘Musical Theatre’ and ‘Classical’ styles
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Southampton Solent University, School of Computing and COmmunications, Southampton
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| 3 | Perception of Children’s Gender and Age
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Tel-Aviv University, Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv
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| 4 | A longitudinal look at voice change in English cathedral girl choristers
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University of York, Electronics, York
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Institute of Education, Arts and Humanities, London
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