SMAC93
Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Opening session
Bennet G: Musical composition and musical acoustics: -What have they to do with each other? (Invited paper) 3
Rossing T D: Musical acoustics research since SMAC 83. (Invited paper) 10
Sataloff R T: The contributions of voice science to voice care. (Invited paper) 20
Session Music Perception
D’Allessandro C & Castellengo M: The pitch of short-duration vibrato tones: experimental data and numerical model. 25
Camiz P: A physico-mathematical model for the spontaneous organization of the auditory cortex. 31
Deutch W A: Spectral peaks in auditory figure-background discrimination. 36
Friberg A & Sundberg J: Perception of just noticeable time displacement of a tone presented in a metrical sequence at different tempos. 39
Gong Z, Xiaomin G, & Wenxue X: Pitch-establishing time. 44
Parncutt R: Categorical perception of short rhythmic events. 47
Rakowski A: Investigating short-term auditory memory with the method of vocal pitch control. 53
Saiwaki N, Inokuchi S, Inouye T, Katayama S, & Hori Y: An analysis of electroencephalograms during music listening. 58
Session Music Performance
Battel G U & Bresin R:
Analysis by synthesis in piano performance: a study on the theme of the Brahms´ "Variations on a theme of Paganini". 69Bresin R, De Poli G, & Vidolin A: A neural networks based system of automatic performance of musical scores. 74
Castellengo M: Fusion or separation: From vibrato to vocal trill. 79
Edlund B: The tyranny of the bar-lines. Encoding notated meter in performance. 84
Fyk J: Static and dynamic model of musical intonation. 89
Födermayer F: "Parmi veder le lagrime". One aria, three interpretations. 96
Gabrielsson A: Intention and emotional expression in music performance. 108
Mazzola G: Musical interpretation via vector fields: A new human workstation on the NEXTSTEP environment. 112
Meyer J: Vibrato sounds in large halls. 117
Prame E: Measurements of the vibrato rate of 10 singers. 122
Repp B H: Musical motion: Some historical and contemporary perspectives (Invited paper) 128
Sundberg J, Friberg A, & Frydén L: Music and locomotion. Perception of tones with envelopes replicating force patterns of walking. 136
Taguti T, Ohgushi K & Sueoka T: Individual differences in the pedal work of piano performance. 142
Todd McAngus N P: Multi-scale analysis of expressive signals: Recovery of structure and motion. 146
Tro J: Perception of microdynamical variation in piano performances. 150
Session Singing
Brattström V, Odenrick L, & Kvam E:
Facial appearance in professional singers and wind instrument players. 157Estill J, Fujimura O, Erickson D, Zhang T & Beechler K: Vocal tract contribution to voice qualities. 161
Gramming P, Nord L, Sundberg J & Elliot N: Does the nose resonate during singing? 166
Hammarberg B & Södersten M: Glottal clossure patterns and waveform charachteristics in female speaking voices –a preliminary report. 172
Hertegård S & Gauffin J: Voice source-filter interaction during high-pitched female singing. 177
Hettergott A: Sprechgesangstimme in Arnold Schoenberg's 'pierrot lunair' 183
Howard D M & Rossiter D P: Real-time visual displays for use in singing training: An overview. 191
Imaizumi S, Saida H, Shimura Y & Hirose H: Harmonic analysis of the singing voice: Acoustic characteristics of vibrato. 197
Laukkanen A-M, Vilkman E & Laine U: On the effects of supralaryngeal acoustics on vocal function. A study with special reference to voice training with "resonance tubes". 201
Leino T: Long-term average spectrum study of speaking voice quality of male actors. 206
Lippus U: Prosody in singing 211
McAllister A, Sederholm E & Sundberg J: Acoustic and perceptual analysis of vocal registers in children. 216
Nawka T, Seidner W & Cebulla M: Experiments on arbitrarily influencing the singer's vibrato. 221
Pabon P: The phonetogram in singing voice analysis and synthesis. 228
Pelorson X, Hirschberg A, Auregan Y &Baillet H: Fluid dynamic aspects of voiced sound production: 1) a modified two-mass model. 234
Ross J & Lehiste I: Estonian laments: A study of their temporal structure. 240
Skålevik M: Sound radiation from the chest of bass singers. 244
Södersten M, Högset C & Sundberg J: Glottal airflow and subglottal pressure in the falsetto and modal registers of countertenor singers. 249
Sonninen A, Hurme P & Sundberg J: Physiological and acoustic observations of support in singing. 254
Ternström S: What can we learn from the acoustical study of choir singing? (Invited paper) 259
Troup G J, Djordjevic S, Bowe H, & Long J: A pilot study of the spectra of sustained sung consonants. 264
Vilkman E & Alku P: Register shift in the lower pitch range. 271
Session Synthesis Of Singing
Berndtsson G & Sundberg J: The MUSSE DIG Singing Synthesis, KTH, Stockholm (
Baritone and Bass) 279Dan T K, Mukherjee B & Datta A K:
Temporal approach for synthesis of singing (soprano 1) 282Pabon P: A rel time singing voice synthesizer (Alto) 288
Cook P R: New control strategies for the Singer Articulatory Voice Synthesis System (soprano 2) 294
Titze I & Story B: The Iowa Singing Synthesis (Tenor) 294
Session Piano and Percussion
Askenfelt A:
Observations on the transient components of the piano tone. 297Galembo A & Askenfelt A: Measuring inharmonicity through pitch extraction. 302
Hall D E: String excitation: piano, harpsichord and clavichord. (Invited paper) 309
Hansen U J & Rossing T D: Vibrational mode splitting in almond-shaped cylinders. 315
Koornhof G W & van der Walt A J: The influence of touch on piano sound. 318
Nakamura I & Naganuma D: Characteristics of piano sound spectra. 325
Rossing T D & von Falkenhausen L: The effect of geometry on the tone separation in Chinese two-tone bells. 331
Session Violin
Askenfelt A:
A look at violin bows. 341Barlow C Y & Woodhouse J: Microstructure and properties of bent spruce. 346
Bazant P, Stephanek T & Melka A: Predicting sound quality of violin from its frequency response. 351
Bork I: Impulse measurements on violin 355
Bowie J C: Principles in acoustic bridge design. 361
Guettler K: Dynamics of the sound spectrum with relation to bow pressure, string torsion, bow/hair compliance and resin characteristics. 364
Hanson R J, Anderson J M & Macomber H K: Measurements of nonlinear effects in a vibrating wire. 369
Hutchins C M: Tonal effects of interactions between the two lowest cavity modes and three body modes of the violin. 373
Inoue T & Tonegawa H: Measured level and phase contours of pressure on the surface of vibrating shells. 379
Jansson E V, Niewczyk B & Frydén L: Timbre and properties of a violin. 383
Kondo M & Kubota H: Bowed string seen in the light of acceleration. 387
Langhoff A: Measurement of acoustic violin spectra and their interpretation using a 3D representation. 392
Molin N-E, Saldner H O, & Jansson E V: Eigenmodes and electronic holography on three violins. 397
Müller H A: The acoustical quality of the violin with respect to its physical properties. (Invited paper) 402
Pitteroff R: Modelling of the bowed-string taking into acount the width of the bow. 407
Rodgers O E: The limits of violin plate tuning, an overview. 411
Schleske M: The influence of changes in the distribution of mass and stiffness of violin-plates on eigenfrequencies and mode-shapes of the violin. 420
Schumacher RT: Aperiodicity, subharmonics, and noise in bowed string instruments. 428
Weinreich G: Radiativity revisited: theory and experiment ten years later. (Invited paper) 432
Woodhouse J: A set of test violins for player-rating experiments. 438
Session Guitar
Karjalainen M & Välimäki V:
Model-based analysis/synthesis of the acoustic guitar. 443Lambourg C & Chaigne A: Measurement and modeling of the admittance matrix at the bridge in guitars. 448
Meinel E: Modal analysis on zither. 454
Richardson B E: Numerical modelling of stringed musical instruments. (Invited paper) 457
Session Wind Instruments
Agulló J, Cardona S & Keefe D H: T
ime-domain measurements of reflection functions for discontinuities in wind-instrument air columns. 465Amir N, Rosenhouse G & Shimony U:
Reconstructing the bore of brass wind instruments: theory and experiments. 479Kergomard J: New resonators having harmonic eigenfrequencies. 476
Dalmont J P & Gilbert J: Inharmonicity and ease of playing of the saxophone. 482
Dudley J D & Strong W J: Computer simulation of a trumpet with mechanical "lips". 486
Fletcher N: Nonlinearity, transients and spectra. (Invited paper) 490
Keefe D H, Barjau A & Agulló J: Theory of wave propagation in axisymmetric horns. 496
Kobata T & Idogawa T: Measurements of the variables taking part in the sounding of a clarinet artificially blown. 501
Krüger W: Player's experiences, signal processing, and the design of woodwind instruments. 505
Moral J A & Alarcia A A : Acoustics of the txistu. 510
Stepánek J, Otcenásek Z & Syrový V: Acoustic documentation of church organs. 516
Strong W J & Dudley J D: Simulation of a player-trumpet system. 520
Verge M-P & Caussé R: Linear analysis of the initial transients of a recorder. 525
Workshop: Methods
Hansen U J & Bork I:
Adapting techniques of modal analysis to sound field representation. 533Merlier B: Space and music. 539
Stanzial D: Can humans perceive the energy field of sound? 545
Strulov A: The hysteretic model of the grand piano hammer-string interaction. 548
Sundin N-G: Aesthetic criteria of musical interpretation in contemporary music. 551
Widholm G & Winkler W: Evaluation of musical instrument quality by computer systems. Examples of realisation. 560
Session Physical Modelling
Chaigne A:
Some thoughts on physical modelling. 569Doutaut V & Chaigne A: Time domain simulations of xylophone bars. 574
Richard G, d'Alessandro C & Grau S: Musical noises synthesis using random Formant Waveforms. 580
Rocchesso D & Turra F: A generalized excitor for real-time sound synthesis by physical models. 584
Woodhouse J: Computer modelling of the bowed string. 589
Adresses to authors
595Sound examples
598