• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.552-558
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• 2023

The characteristics of the vibrato of danso, one of the wind instruments in Korean traditional music, have not been studied much. In this study, the characteristics of the vibrato of danso were analyzed using monotones and musical performances. In particular, intonation, vibrato rate, and vibrato extent were measured as a function of time, and their average values for each vibrato tone were also calculated. The results for vibrato rate showed that the vibrato tended to start slowly and then increase very quickly and significantly and the average values for each tone were observed to have a very wide range, which shows that the characteristics of the vibrato of danso are different from those in Western music. In addition, monotones and musical performances showed some different results in vibrato rate and vibrato extent. There have not been many studies that have quantified the intonation, vibrato rate, and vibrato extent in Korean traditional musical instruments, and this is especially true in the case of danso. The results in this study can be used as basic data on danso vibrato. For example, they can be used as reference materials in education, danso virtual instruments, and danso applications.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.473-478
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• 2021

Vibrato corresponds to a modulation of frequency and is one of the most frequently used techniques to enrich vocal and musical instrument sounds. Whereas the fundamental frequency trajectories of vibrato tones are generally modeled as a sinusoid, they are sometimes observed to be non-sinusoidal. In this paper, we propose a method to analyze the characteristics of non-sinusoidal fundamental frequency trajectories of vibrato sounds. The proposed method performs Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based harmonic analysis on the frequency trajectory, analyzes vibrato parameters, and calculates a sinusoid purity factor. We applied the proposed method to flute, viola, and saxophone vibrato tones, whose results showed the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.5-9
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• 1996

Vibrato means periodic variations of various characteristics in sound wave. Because it causes special tonal effects, it plays and important role in musical performance. But when we examine the cases of scientific study about the vibrato that has been done until now, the cases were focused just on acoustic analysis of vibrato, so they didn't disclose the correlation between the results of analysis and the musical factors concerning actual performance. So this paper attempts to analyze violin vibrato acoustically, and find out the interrelation between the results and the various musical factors of violin performance.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.143-145
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• 2007

Muscle groups that are located in and around the vocal tract can produce audible changes in frequency and/or intensity of the voice. Vocal vibrato is a characteristic feature in the singing of performers trained in the western classical tradition and vibrato is generally considered to result from modulation in frequency amplitude and timbre. Vocal tremor is also characterized by periodic fluctuations in the voice frequency or intensity and vocal tremor is symptom of a neurological disease as Spasmodic dysphonia , Parkinson's disease. Vocal vibrato and Vocal tremor may have many of the same origins and mechanisms in the voice production systems. The purpose of this study is to find acostic character of Korean traditional song Pansori singer's vibrato and Spasmodic dysphonia patient's vocal tremor. twelve Pansori singers and seven Spasmodic dysponia patients participated to this study. Power spectrum and Real time Spectrogram are used to analyze the acoustic characteristics of Pansori singing and Spasmodic dysphonia patient's voice The results are as follows; First, vowel formant differences between Pansori singing and Spasmodic dysphonia patient's voice are higher F1, F3. Second, The vibrato rate show differences between Pansori singing and Spasmodic dysphonia patients;$4^{\sim}6/sec$ and $5{\sim}6/sec$ Vibrato rate of pitch is 5.7 Hz ${\sim}$ 42.4 Hz for Pansori singing , 3.8 Hz ${\sim}$ 27.9 Hz for Spasmodic dysphonia patients ;Vibrato rate of intensity range is 0.07 dB ${\sim}$ 8.26 dB for Pansori singing and 0.07 dB ${\sim}$ 4.81 dB for Spasmodic dysphonia patients

• Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.37-43
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• 2005

The phenomenon of vocal vibrato may be regarded as an acoustic representation of one of the most rapid and continuous changes in pitch and intensity that the human vocal mechanism is capable of producing. Singers are likely to use vibrato effectively to enrich their voice. The purpose of this study was to obtain acoustic measurements (vF0 and vAm) of 45 subjects (15 trot and 15 ballad singers and 15 non-singers) and to compare acoustic measurements of the vowel /a/ produced by 3 groups on 2 voice sampling conditions (prolongation and singing of /a/). Thirty singers of trot and ballad were selected by a producer and a concert director working for the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System). The MDVP was used to measure the acoustic parameters. A two-way MANOVA was used for statistical analyses. The results were as follows; Firstly, there was no significant difference among the 3 groups in vF0 and vAm in prolongation of /a/, but in singing voice, there was a significant difference among 3 groups in vF0 and vAm. Secondly, there was an interaction between music genre and voice sampling condition in vF0, and vAm. Finally, trot singers sing with more vibrato than ballad singers. It was concluded that it is very important to analyze singers' voice including various voice conditions (prolongation, reading, conversation, and singing) and to identify differences of singing voice characteristics among music genre.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.165-177
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• 2004

Western singers voice have been studied in music science since the early 20th century. However, Korean traditional singers voice have not yet been studied scientifically. This study is to find the physiological and acoustic characteristics of Pansori singers voices. Western singers participated for comparative purposes. Ten western singers and ten Pansori singers participated in this study. The subjects spoke and sung seven simple vowels /a, e, i, o, u, c, w/. An analysis of Glottal image was done by Scope View and acoustic characteristics of speech and singing voice were analyzed by CSL. The results are as follows: (1) Glottal gestures of Pansori singers showed asymmetric vocal folds. (2) Singing vowel formants of Pansori singers showed breathiness based on Spectrogram. (3) Music formant of western singers appeared in around 3kHz area, however, Pansori singers formant appeared in low frequency area. Modulation of vibrato showed 6 frequency per sec in case of western singers. Pansori singers showed no deep modulation of vibrato on spectrogram.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.801-807
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• 2006

This study analyzed the timbral characteristics of Pliri by basis step for the sound synthesis for Piri, Korean traditional musical Instrument. By analyzing this material, we can find out three characteristics about the study of the spectrum analysis for the sound synthesis of Piri. First, compared the timbral characteristics of Piri with Oboe through the spectrum analysis, Second, analyzed the timbral characteristics by the sound occurrence process through the time zone analysis of the attack part of the sound started. Finally, analyzed the special characteristics of the vibrato that is important role of musical instrument performance. As a result, the timbral characteristics of Piri is that the volume of the high harmonics was appeared to be high unlike the general classical instrument and the noise quantity rapidly decreased in the sound attack part but the volume value of harmonics increased. And also vibrato that is performance technique is changed pitch and amplitude at the same time by contrast with the general classical instrument. Thus, the timbral characteristic of Piri by the harmonics and the timbre change by the attack part which is sound occurrence process and the change of the pitch and amplitude in the vibrato is characteristic that represented unique quality of Piri. We expect that this achievement can be applied to sound synthesis.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.115-139
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• 1998

The aim of this study is to develop an the assessment program for the singing voice which is based on the physiological and acoustic methods. 22 sopranos, 6 mezzo sopranos, 4 tenors and 4 baritones participated to these experiments. The results measured by Visi-Pitch, spectrograph, and strobo-scope can be summarized as follows: (1) The maximum phonation time of singers must over 14 second higher with one deep inspiration (2) The parts classified by vocal range using Visi-Pitch: soprano between 167Hz $\sim$1,190Hz, mezzo soprano between 146Hz$\sim$956Hz, tenor between 75Hz$\sim$503Hz and baritone between 73 Hz and 385 Hz. (3) Longitudinal glottal size of singers decreases depending on the high-low pitch variation while lattitudinal glottal size increases depending on high-low pitch variation. (4) Well-trained singers show over 5 times the vibrato rate of untrained singers and regular pitch variation during measured periods. Vibrato's intensity do not over 3 dB. (5) Singer's formant indicates professional voice depending on the each parts: 3,207 Hz for soprano, 3,057 Hz for mezzo soprano, 2,754 Hz for tenor and 2,560 Hz for baritone.. (6) $F_1$ of singing voice is higher than that of speech while $F_2\;and\;F_3$ of singing voice are lower than those of speech.

• MALSORI
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• no.42
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• pp.15-24
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• 2001

판소리의 특질을 연구하기 위하여 여덟 명창의 소리를 분석하였다. 그 결과 모두에게서 유성음임에도 불구하고 비주기성인 소리를 찾았다. 이러한 현상은 매우 높은 성대밑 공기압에 기인한다고 보았다. 이 비주기성 유성음은 명창들의 일반 대화에서도 나타나서 이러한 현상이 곧 성대의 영구적인 변화에 의한 것임을 추정할 수 있었다. 또한 판소리에서 나타나는 vibrato는 서양의 오페라에 비해 주기가 훨씬 길고 범위는 훨씬 넓음이 확인되었다. 그 외에도 모든 명창의 경우 고주파수 영역에서 매우 높은 에너지를 보여주어서 일반인의 발성과 차이가 남을 알 수 있었고, 특히 일부 명창의 경우는 1000Hz 바로 이하에서 유별나게 강한 harmonics가 나타나서 서양 음악의 소위 singer's formant와 대조를 이루었다.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.259-259
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• 1997

폐쇄성 수면무호흡의 치료를 목적으로 한 구개수구개인두성형술 이후의 음성변화 유무를 파악하여, 성악가 등의 전문적인 음성사용자에게 상기한 수술을 결정함에 있어서 가능한 guideline을 제시하여 보고자 하였다. 수면다원검사상 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증으로 진단된 성인남자 20명을 대상으로 수술전후의 음성변화에 대한 설문조사를 하였고, 수술전, 수술후 1개월에 각각 /아/, /이/, /우/ 모음의 제1, 2, 3 음향대를 비교하였으며, 표준 비음비율이 각기 다른 세가지 문장을 이용하여 수술전후의 비음비율의 변화를 측정하였다. 환자 자신은 수술전후의 음성이나 음색의 변화를 느낄 수 없었고, 비음비율의 변화나 모음의 음형대에 대부분은 변화가 없었지만, /우/ 음의 제3음형대 특성에 변화가 있음을 관찰하였고, 구인두가 중요한 역할을 담당할 수 있는 특정언어의 일부 발음이나 vibrato, singer's formant등의 변화유무에 대한 연구가 없는 점을 감안한다면, 성악가를 비롯한 전문적 음성사용자에？서는 구개수 구개인두성형수술을 결정함에 있어 신중을 기하여야 할 것으로 사료되었다.