The opera, whose nature is synthetic and spectacular, sensitive to social upheavals changing priorities in artistic interests. Thus, the postmodern era, opera art revealed mass audience gets closer popular culture; it adapts new aesthetic trends at same time influences them. One of bridges that connect with culture figures famous composers star performers. Contemporary uses rethinks images real...

The vowels of European languages are primarily distinguished by the frequencies of the two lowest formants in the spectrum of the output sound, which are in turn produced by the frequencies (R1 and R2) of the first two resonances of the vocal tract [1]. Under some conditions, many singers use the strategy of resonance tuning; i.e. they tune a resonance to a harmonic of the fundamental frequency...

Purpose of the article. To reveal specifics physicality as an important component artistic skill and to determine promising approaches development actions at present stage professional training opera singers. The research methodology consists use typological, structural-typological, comparative methods study modern in vocal performance, relationship between body movement sound movement, six typ...

One of the peculiarities in studying Vasyl Stefanik’s creative life is his relationships with prominent Ukrainian singers Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872–1952) and Mykhailo Golynsky (1890–1973). Having strong national cultural identity talent they filled artist’s spiritual new colors, impressions, feelings. Being all-arounder personalities paid tribute to writer’s talent, supported him difficult p...

OBJECTIVE Tenor singers may reach their top pitch range either by shifting from modal to falsetto register or by using their so-called 'voix mixte'. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this study, dynamic real-time MRI of 8 frames per second was used to analyze the vocal tract profile in 10 professional opera tenors, who sang an ascending scale from C4 (262 Hz) to A4 (440 Hz) on the vowel /a/. The scale ...

OBJECTIVE To explore aerodynamic, acoustic, and laryngeal changes surrounding opera performance. STUDY DESIGN Prospective preperformance, postperformance, and day after performance. METHODS The laryngeal and vocal function of five male and five female classically trained singers was assessed immediately before, immediately after, and 1 day after an actual operatic performance. Phonatory thr...

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...

Using long-term-spectrum (LTAS) analysis of fluent speech, the effects of speaking in noise and of speaking with differently filtered auditory feedback as well as of voluntarily changing vocal intensity are analyzed in nine male adult singers and nonsingers. Three values in the LTAS are analyzed: the level of the main pedk near 500 HZ, of a secondary peak near 2000 Hz and at the average fundame...

Recordings of the rib cage and abdominal motions and acoustic output were obtained from five professional opera singers during performance of an aria recorded with two levels of voice projection. The condition of greater projection resulted in a significant increase in the acoustic power in the frequency band 2-4 kHz, relative to the power in the 0-2 kHz band, and a decrease in the mean expirat...

This paper presents preliminary results on expressive performance in the human tenor voice. This work investigates how professional opera singers manipulate sound properties such as timing, amplitude, and pitch in order to produce expressive performances. We also consider the contribution of features of prosody in the artistic delivery of an operatic aria. Our approach is based on applying mach...