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When does a sung tone start?

Johan Sundberg1, Julia Bauer-Huppmann

  • 1Department of Speech Music Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. pjohan@speech.kth.se

Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation
|March 28, 2006
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Professional singers often align their vowel onsets with the piano accompaniment. This study found accompanists typically synchronized with singers, though slight timing variations occurred for artistic expression, influenced by song tempo.

Area of Science:

  • Phonetics and Music Performance
  • Vocal Pedagogy and Acoustics

Background:

  • Traditional phonetics emphasizes consonant-syllable initiation.
  • Musical practice suggests vowel onset synchronization with the beat is crucial in singing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the temporal relationship between singers' vowel onsets and piano accompaniment onsets.
  • To test the assumption of synchronized onsets in professional vocal performances.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of the time interval between vowel onsets and piano accompaniment onsets.
  • Utilized commercial CD recordings of songs performed by international vocal artists.

Main Results:

  • Accompanists most frequently synchronized their tones with the singers' vowel onsets.

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  • Deviations (lead and lag) were observed, likely for expressive reasons.
  • Timing variations correlated with tempo: smallest in fast songs, largest in slow songs.

    • Conclusions:

    • Vocalists and accompanists generally achieve synchronization, aligning with musical expectations.
    • Intentional temporal flexibility in vocal accompaniment serves expressive purposes.
    • Tempo significantly influences the degree of permissible timing variations in vocal performances.