OBJECTIVES This study investigated whether there were differences in the acoustic measures of fundamental frequency (Fo), jitter, intensity, and shimmer of older amateur singers and nonsingers and whether there were significant correlations between these acoustic measurements and listener judgments of speaker age. METHODS Acoustic measurements were obtained on 60 speaker participants from a s...

OBJECTIVES This study correlates the Singing Voice Handicap Index (SVHI) scores with videostrobolaryngoscopy in healthy professional singers as a measure of self-perceived vocal health versus actual pathology seen on examination. The objective was to measure the strength of self-assessment among professional singers and determine if there is a benefit of combining SVHI and videostrobolaryngosco...

Purpose To compare the voice handicap index of popular and erudite professional singers according to gender, age, professional experience time, and presence or absence of self-reported vocal complaints. Methods One hundred thirty-two professional singers, 74 popular and 58 erudite, who responded to a questionnaire with regards to identification, age, gender, professional experience time in si...

Most believe that the ability to carry a tune is unevenly distributed in the general population. To test this claim, we asked occasional singers (n=62) to sing a well-known song in both the laboratory and in a natural setting (experiment 1). Sung performances were judged by peers for proficiency, analyzed for pitch and time accuracy with an acoustic-based method, and compared to professional si...

Drawing on previous work which showed that singers in Cantonese transfer contour tone information over to singing, this paper examines whether singers in Mandarin exhibit similar kinds of transfer. Analysis of contour slope, duration and fundamental frequency suggest that Mandarin singers do not transfer these elements of tone to their singing.

Several prestigious classical music competitions are organized in the national and international fields. These competitions, field such as performance composition, motivate many young artists allow them to achieve significant successes. The Leyla Gencer Voice Competition is an worldwide-known voice competition, which oldest most important competition held Turkey opera genre. Gencer, known La Di...

PURPOSE To identify and characterize the presence of body pain related to voice usage in choral singers. METHODS A questionnaire investigating the occurrence of voice problems, vocal self-evaluation, and a report of body aches was given to 50 classical choral singers and 150 participants who were non-singers. Thirteen types of aches were investigated that were distributed into two groups: lar...

BACKGROUND temporal ordering and temporal resolution. AIM to compare the performance of professional singers with that of well tuned and out of tune amateur singers in the pitch pattern test (PPT) and in the Random Gap Detection Test (RGDT). METHOD participants were 78 individuals, male and female, with ages ranging from 18 to 55 years. All of the participants were singers with normal heari...