Preferences for Strong or Weak Singer's Formant Resonance in Choral Tone Quality

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the preferences of undergraduate college student auditors (N = 139) with respect to a choral sound produced in an anechoic chamber that included a fully resonate singer’s formant and choral sound produced in the same chamber using a weaker singer’s formant resonance. An ensemble comprised of graduate voice students (N = 8) sang four choral music excerpts. Each excerpt was recorded twice. Singers first employed a full soloistic placement that resulted in a tone with strong upper resonance in the singers’ formant range (2 kHz ‐ 4 kHz). The same singers then employed a greatly reduced singer’s formant resonance. Recordings were analyzed, then compiled into a stimulus recording for this study. Auditor participants were randomly assigned to one of two listening groups. One group listened to six pairings each of two of the choral music excerpts for a total of twelve trials. For each excerpt, the order of presentation of the non-resonant version versus the resonant version was presented three times in one order and three times in the reverse order. Each of the six trials was randomized with the six trials from the second choral music excerpt. The same procedure was followed for the second two choral music excerpts. In each trial, subjects were asked to indicate that excerpt performed with the tone quality that they liked the best. Responses were cross-tabulated according to

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