Jan 4, 2019
Dr. MATT SCHOLONEGER ES048
The purpose of Matt's study was to examine the use of
dosimetry-derived tessituragrams and Voice Range Profiles
(VRPs) in selecting appropriate voice repertoire for singing
students.
Matt’s project for the Van Lawrence fellowship, funded by a
grant from NATS and the Voice Foundation, was a study in Voice
Dosemetry - that is, measuring and studying individual’s voice
range profiles - the actual pitch range and loudness range of a
persons voice. Specifically, he focused on the voice load of songs
- how much time on each pitch, how many vibratory cycles on each
pitch - in different keys.
The singers were recorded singing the same song in 3 different
keys. He got their own perception of difficulty, had an expert
panel listen, and using the score, kind of like the map of the
song, which he calls a score based tessituragram. With each singer
he made a voice range profile with the dosemeter. (A dosemeter
looks like earbuds on a hard collar, that sits around your neck and
rests in the front. It measures skin vibration in the neck.)
He also looked at overall voice use through the day. He found
that people think about how much they sing, but not how much they
talk, or how loud the environment is.
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To revisit the episode with voice scientist, Ingo Titze, you
can look for episode 16 in your podcast player or visit the podcast
page
here. http://everysing.libsyn.com/016-every-sing-dr-ingo-titze-voice-scientist
Matt’s first episode on Every Sing was episode
#2 http://everysing.libsyn.com/002-every-sing-dr-matthew-schloneger-on-voice-dosimetry
You can find Matt @ Friends University in Wichita, KS
matthew_schloneger@friends.edu
Others involved in Matt's project:
Eric J. Hunter, PhD, Dept of Communicative Sciences and
Disorders, Michigan State University
Lynn Maxfield, PhD, National Center for Voice and Speech
Previous Studies
Thurmer, Stefan, “The Tessiturogram,” Journal of Voice
2, no. 4 (1988): 327–329.
Titze, Ingo, “Quantifying Tessitura in a Song." Journal
of Singing, 65:1 (September 2008), 59–61.
Hanrahan, Kevin, "Use of the Voice Range Profile in
Assigning Repertoire: An Evaluation." NATS National Conference,
Salt Lake City, UT, July 2010 (Best Poster Award)
Nico Paolo Paolillo and Frano Fussi, “The Vocal Score
Prole/Vocal Range Prole Rate and APM in Artistic Voice Evaluation:
Application Tested on Opera and Musical Singers; An Evaluation of
Voice Suitability and Vocal Fatigue,” in Claudia Manfredi, ed.,
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Models and
Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (Firenze,
Italy, August 25–27, 2011), 85–92.
Nix, John, "Measuring Mozart: A Pilot Study Testing the Accuracy
of Objective Methods for Matching a Song to a Singer.” Journal of
Singing, 70:5 (June 2014), 561-572
Thanks Go To The Van L. Lawrence Fellowship – The Voice
Foundation and the National Association of Teachers of Singing
Matt’s work was
partially supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant R01
DC012315 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders.
