Effects of an Auditor's Past Musical Experience on the Intelligibility of Vowel Sounds in Singing Page: 40
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It appears to consist of a cluster of three formants.
The lowest of these formants corresponds to the
third formant in normal speech and the highest to
the fourth. In between these formants an extra
formant is found . . . The singing formant has been
shown to add to the beauty of the tone. Also it has
been found to be labeled "placement in the head"
among singing teachers. An interesting circumstance
is that the "singing formant" appears in a frequency
region where the ear has its maximum amplitude
sensitivity. Winckel has suggested that it may make
the sung sounds easier to perceive (26, p. 4).
Furthermore, the singer's formant was found at a place in
the sound spectrum where the large orchestras have a weak
set of reinforced partials, thus enabling singers with a
well-developed singer's formant to be heard over an orches-
tra.
Critical Observations
There has been considerable confusion in the area of
singing intelligibility. While numerous investigations
have been conducted over the past decades, progress has
been slow because the majority of researchers have pursued
isolated individual research projects that often resulted in
contradictory findings. Some of the problems with the body
of research on singing intelligibility included the use of
small populations and the absence of a standard or controlled
set of variables including pitch, vowels, singers, and
auditors. The failure of many investigators to account for
these potentially important variables or in some cases even
to let the reader know what the variables are, has been a
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Bradley, C. Mark (Charles Mark). Effects of an Auditor's Past Musical Experience on the Intelligibility of Vowel Sounds in Singing, dissertation, December 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331919/m1/48/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .