Laryngeal Vibratory Behavior in Traditional Noh Singing

作     者：Ikuyo Yoshinaga Jiangping Kong 

作者机构：Department of Chinese Language and LiteraturePeking UniversityBeijing 100871China Center for Chinese LinguisticsPeking UniversityBeijing 100871China 

出 版 物：《Tsinghua Science and Technology》 (清华大学学报（自然科学版（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第17卷第1期

页      面：94-103页

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学科分类：13[艺术学] 1302[艺术学-音乐与舞蹈学] 

基　　金：Supported by the China Social Sciences Funds of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 10JJD740007) 

主　　题：pressed voice VocaI-Ventricular Mode (VVM) growl voice Electroglottography (EGG) openquotient speed quotient 

摘      要：The phonation of Noh, a traditional Japanese style of singing, was investigated using electroglot- tographic and acoustical analyses. The dynamics of the laryngeal vibratory behaviors were analyzed for the singing voice of the Noh play compared with natural speech based on the Electroglottography （EGG） pa- rameters, EGG waveform, spectrum, and spectrogram. The result shows that Noh singing is characterized by low open quotient and high speed quotient. Three types of phonations are used in the singing with pressed, Vocal-Ventricular Mode （WM）, and growl voices. It was hypothesized that the period doubling ob- served in the EGG signal was reflective of WM, which was caused by the phase difference in the vocal and ventricular fold oscillations, while the damped peak amplitude in every other cycle in the EGG signal was the result of the oscillations of the aryepiglottic folds at a frequency of half of the fundamental frequency. Sub- harmonics generated by the supraglottal oscillations add unique timbre to the sounds. The results suggest that the combination of phonation types is the key factor in generating their peculiar voice qualities.