Freddie Mercury – acoustic analysis of speaking fundamental frequency, vibrato, and subharmonic.

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F17%3A73584743" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/17:73584743 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/14015439.2016.1156737" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/14015439.2016.1156737</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/14015439.2016.1156737" target="_blank" >10.3109/14015439.2016.1156737</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Freddie Mercury – acoustic analysis of speaking fundamental frequency, vibrato, and subharmonic.

Original language description

Freddie Mercury was one of the twentieth century&apos;s best-known singers of commercial contemporary music. This study presents an acoustical analysis of his voice production and singing style, based on perceptual and quantitative analysis of publicly available sound recordings. Analysis of six interviews revealed a median speaking fundamental frequency of 117.3 Hz, which is typically found for a baritone voice. Analysis of voice tracks isolated from full band recordings suggested that the singing voice range was 37 semitones within the pitch range of F#2 (about 92.2 Hz) to G5 (about 784 Hz). Evidence for higher phonations up to a fundamental frequency of 1,347 Hz was not deemed reliable. Analysis of 240 sustained notes from 21 a-cappella recordings revealed a surprisingly high mean fundamental frequency modulation rate (vibrato) of 7.0 Hz, reaching the range of vocal tremor. Quantitative analysis utilizing a newly introduced parameter to assess the regularity of vocal vibrato corroborated its perceptually irregular nature, suggesting that vibrato (ir)regularity is a distinctive feature of the singing voice. Imitation of subharmonic phonation samples by a professional rock singer, documented by endoscopic high-speed video at 4,132 frames per second, revealed a 3:1 frequency locked vibratory pattern of vocal folds and ventricular folds.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10610 - Biophysics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology

ISSN

1401-5439

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

29-38

UT code for WoS article

000392841700005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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