Imprecise singing is widespread.
J Acoust Soc Am
; 128(4): 2182-90, 2010 Oct.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20968388
ABSTRACT
There has been a recent surge of research on the topic of poor-pitch singing. However, this research has not addressed an important distinction in measurement that between accuracy and precision. With respect to singing, accuracy refers to the average difference between sung and target pitches. Precision, by contrast, refers to the consistency of repeated attempts to produce a pitch. A group of 45 non-musician participants was asked to vocally imitate unfamiliar 5-note melodies, as well as to sing a series of familiar melodies from memory (e.g., Happy Birthday). The results showed that singers were more accurate than they were precise, and that a majority of participants could justifiably be categorized as imprecise singers. Accuracy and precision measures were correlated with one another, and conditional-probability analyses suggested that accuracy predicted precision more so than the converse. Finally, performance differences across groups of singers were greater for the imitation of unfamiliar tone sequences than for the recall of familiar melodies.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Percepção da Altura Sonora
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Qualidade da Voz
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Acústica
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Música
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Acoust Soc Am
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos