Subject: Re: Vibrato From: "James W. Beauchamp" <jwb(at)TIMBRE.MUSIC.UIUC.EDU> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 11:10:34 -0500David, Here are some references on the acoustic analysis of vibrato: d'Alessandro, Christophe & Castellengo, "A parameteric study on pitch of short vocal vibrato tones", (A) JASA, Vol. 91, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 2434 (1992). Maher, Robert & Beauchamp, James, "An investigation of vocal vibrato for synthesis, Applied Acoustics, Vol. 30, 219-245 (1990). Prame, Eric, "Measurements of the vibrato rate of ten singers", JASA, Vol. 96, No. 4, 1979-1984 (1994). Shipp, Thomas, Doherty, E. Thomas, & Hakes, Jean, "Mean frequency of vocal vibrato relative to target frequency", J. Voice, Vol. 3, No. 1, 32-35 (1989). Shipp, Thomas, Sunberg, Johan, & Doherty, E. Thomas, "The effect of delayed auditory feedback on vocal vibrato", J. Voice, Vol. 2., No. 3, 195-199 (1988). Shonle, John I. & Haran, Kathryn, "The pitch of vibrato tones", JASA, Vol. 67, No. 1, 246-252 (1980). Yoshiyuki, Horii, "Acousic analysis of vocal vibrato: A theoretical interpretation of data", J. Voice, Vol. 3, No. 1, 36-43 (1989). Most vibrato research seems to be on the human voice. I don't have any references on vibrato of instruments or on emotional response to vibrato. Jim Beauchamp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign j-beauch(at)uiuc.edu David Huron writes: >I have a graduate student who wants to carry out some experimental >work related to emotional connotations evoked by various types of vibrato >(speed, depth, onset-delay, etc.) Our preliminary literature search has not >produced the sort of background literature we need to get started (apart >from the old work by Seashore). Does anyone know of some classic papers >that might get our literature review jump-started? > > ___________________________________________________________________ > | David Huron, PhD 1866 College Road | > | Professor Ohio State University | > | School of Music & Columbus, OH | > | Center for Cognitive Science U.S.A. 43210 | > | Tel. (614) 688-4753 Fax. (614) 292-1102 | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~