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SIPILÄ, LAURA (2011)
SIPILÄ, LAURA
2011
Puhetekniikka ja vokologia - Speech Technique and Vocology
Kasvatustieteiden yksikkö - School of Education
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2011-03-17
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https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uta-1-21694
https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uta-1-21694
Tiivistelmä
Voice is an essential tool in actor´s work. The quality of voice is important, since it may affect the audience’s impressions of the actor. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the impression of a good male voice of an actor (in Finland) and the spectral features earlier related to it are still the same as 30 years ago. According to earlier studies, a relatively gentle spectral slope and a strong sound energy concentration at about 3.5 kHz, the so-called actor’s or speaker’s formant, correlated with the evaluation of a good speaking voice. The present study was based on text reading samples recorded and evaluated for the first time 30 years ago from seven male actors, before and after attending a voice training course. These samples were evaluated again by student actors and future voice professionals in the 1980s, 1990s and in the 21st century. A Long term average spectrum (LTAS) was analyzed from the samples. Sound level differences were measured between the strongest spectral peak and the strongest peak between the frequency ranges of 1-2 kHz, 2-3 kHz, 3-4 kHz and 4-5 kHz. According to the results, most of the text reading samples after training were evaluated to sound better than those before it, even though in the 1990s and in the 21st century the voice quality evaluation did not correlate with the relative sound level in the frequency ranges. This seems to suggest that the tolerance of both "metallic" and "soft" voice seems to have increased, possibly suggesting the influence of rock music and television. Rock music favours a metallic voice while television favours a soft ordinary voice and speech in contrast to louder and more projected stage speech.
Asiasanat:Voice quality, actor?s speech training, listening evaluation, LTAS, actor´s formant
Asiasanat:Voice quality, actor?s speech training, listening evaluation, LTAS, actor´s formant