Summary
Fado is a Portuguese musical genre, instrumentally accompanied by a Portuguese and
an acoustic guitar. Fado singers' voice is perceptually characterized by a low pitch,
hoarse, and strained voice. The present research study sketches the acoustic and phonatory
profile of the Fado singers' voice. Fifteen Fado singers produced spoken and sung
phonatory tasks. For the spoken voice measures, the maximum phonation time and s/z
ratio of Fado singers were near the inefficient physiological threshold. Fundamental
frequency was higher than that found in nonsingers and lower than that found in Western
Classical singers. Jitter and shimmer mean values were higher compared with nonsingers.
Harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR) was similar to the mean values for nonsingers. For the
sung voice, jitter was higher compared with Country, Musical Theater, Soul, Jazz,
and Western Classical singers and lower than Pop singers. Shimmer mean values were
lower than Country, Musical Theater, Pop, Soul, and Jazz singers and higher than Western
Classical singers. HNR was similar for Western Classical singers. Maximum phonational
frequency range of Fado singers indicated that male and female subjects had a lower
range compared with Western Classical singers. Additionally, Fado singers produced
vibrato, but singer's formant was rarely produced. These sung voice characteristics
could be related with life habits, less/lack of singing training, or could be just
a Fado voice characteristic.
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Publication history
Published online: April 15, 2013
Accepted:
October 10,
2012
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