Intonation accuracy and pitch stability during crescendo as the voice quality and singer’s experience indicator among choral singers

• Autorzy: Gawlik Mateusz , Wszołek Wiesław
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The ability to correctly reproduce notes by the voice is one of the essential features of the singing task and called intonation. In combination with other parameters like timbre, formants, and sound attack, it affects the reception of listening impressions. In this paper, we present results of the examination concerning the automatic evaluation of intonation among the nonsingers, untrained and trained choral singers. We performed both pitch error during vocalization and pitch stability in crescendo task analysis among studied groups. We used Zero Band Filtering method to determine fundamental frequency from the singing signal. We noticed significant differences between singers with different skills and experience, and the possibility to classify the level of advancement of the singer by using intonation characteristic.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

intonation; singing voice; pitch accuracy; jitter; signal processing

PL

intonacja; głos śpiewaczy; dokładność tonacji; przetwarzanie sygnałów

• Wydawca: Poznan University of Technology. Institute of Applied Mechanics
• Czasopismo: Vibrations in Physical Systems
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: Vol. 30, nr 1
• Strony: art. no. 2019138
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 19 poz., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Gawlik Mateusz

• AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Cracow, Mickiewicza 30

autor

Wszołek Wiesław

• AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Cracow, Mickiewicza 30

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa Nr 461252 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2020).