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Although many studies suggest that singing in music therapy can improve non-fluent aphasic patients’ speech production, the study by Stahl et al. [25] shows that rhythm, instead of singing, is the key element in music therapy that benefits aphasic patients. Therefore, rhythmic components in music therapy might explain why music therapy can ...
Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde.
The mezzo-soprano is the middle female voice and the most common of the female singing voices, which tends to dominate in non-classical music, with vocal range that typically lies between the A below "middle C" (C 4) to the A two octaves above (i.e. A 3 –A 5).
Voice therapy is sometimes undertaken by trans women and trans men to make their voices better match their gender. [16] Voice feminization is the desired outcome of surgical techniques, speech therapy, self-help programs and a general litany of other techniques to acquire a female-sounding voice from a perceived male-sounding voice. Voice ...
More important than range in voice classification is tessitura, or where the voice is most comfortable singing, and vocal timbre, or the characteristic sound of the singing voice. [1] For example, a female singer may have a vocal range that encompasses the low notes of a mezzo-soprano and the high notes of a soprano.
A voice type is a classification of the human singing voice into perceivable categories or groups. Particular human singing voices are identified as having certain qualities or characteristics of vocal range, vocal weight, tessitura, vocal timbre, and vocal transition points (), such as breaks and lifts within the voice.
The Voice in Violence and Other Contemporary Issues in Professional Voice and Speech Training Presented by the Voice and Speech Review. Cincinnati: Voice and Speech Trainers Association, Inc. pp. 30– 33. ISBN 978-1-55783-497-3. Pinksterboer, Hugo (2008). Tipbook Vocals : The Complete Guide (5th ed.). New York: Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-1-4234-5622-3.
[16] [19] Some have argued that negative perceptions are part of a broad attack on women's speech, [15] noting how male voices with vocal fry carry different, and sometimes opposite, connotations. [20] In Finnish language, creaky voice is an integrated part of the pronunciation and is used regardless of gender. A study from Finland showed that ...