Journal article
The Effect of Single Harmonic Tuning on Vocal Loudness
Journal of voice, Vol.35(6), pp.832-837
11/01/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.02.018
PMCID: PMC7529819
PMID: 32245662
Abstract
The study addresses the benefit of tuning single harmonics with vocal tract resonances to increase vocal loudness. The loudness of theoretically constructed vocal sounds with variable levels of sound energy in the first, second, and third harmonics is computed on the basis of ISO standard 226:2003. In comparison to increased loudness with changes in overall spectral slope, it is shown that single harmonic tuning requires a greater range of SPL to produce a similar range of loudness. For example, a 10–40 dB increase in the level of a single harmonic produces less than two doublings of loudness, whereas a spectral slope change from −12 dB/octave to −3 dB/octave can produce a similar doubling of loudness with only a 5 dB SPL increase.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Effect of Single Harmonic Tuning on Vocal Loudness
- Creators
- Ingo R. Titze - University of Utah
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of voice, Vol.35(6), pp.832-837
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.02.018
- PMID
- 32245662
- PMCID
- PMC7529819
- NLM abbreviation
- J Voice
- ISSN
- 0892-1997
- eISSN
- 1873-4588
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984719745702771
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