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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Tone production"”.
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An overview of traditional and modern flutes with regard to material, construction and tone production
The first flutes were made in prehistoric times when a caveman decided to hollow out a bone, pierce a small hole in it and blow in it in a particular way to make a sound. Since then different cultures from all over the world have made many different types of flutes. They are shaped differently, …
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The Baroque flute as a modern voice : Extended techniques and their practical integration through performance and improvisation
… flute. An overview of historical ideas regarding tone production with descriptions by musicians of the 18th through the 21st century provides a basis from which to proceed to new techniques for tone production and their expressive potential. Audio examples are given of all new techniques. Lastly, …
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A comparative study of the guitar and the Chinese lute-pipa : an overview of their origins, construction, and techniques
… overview of the construction in which related to tone production itself of the guitar and the pipa. Chapter V gives a thorough discussion of the techniques used in both instruments. This chapter is further subdivided into four sections: Tone production, Right hand technique, Left hand technique, …
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Human Things: Rethinking Guitars and Ethnography
… their instruments, looking at their theories of tone production, methods of construction, and their perceptions and uses of various media within their guitars. Secondly, I recruit the Batsons’ theories, methods, and revisions of tradition as a metaphor to discuss the traditional ways of …
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The Relationship of Oral Anatomy and Trumpet Performance: Prediction of Physical Talent
… demonstrating selected performance skills (tone production, flexibility, articulation, range, intonation, and endurance) on their instruments while being audio and video recorded. Recordings were analyzed using computer software (MatLAB and Audacity) to derive numerical scores. In phase 2, …
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Allusions to the vocal art in selected wind instrument pedagogical sources
… to voice, breathing and breath control, tone production, facility, and musicianship. Based on the finding that numerous allusions to the vocal art have been documented in wind instrument pedagogical sources, the following conclusions are drawn: 1. A very close relationship exists between …
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Saxophone performance problems : causes and solutions
… adjustment, defective neck, dents; (5) player-tone production, technical problems, air control, tonguing, vibrato.The final chapter functions as a checklist when the cause of a problem is uncertain. Under four categories of performance-problem. symptoms (poor tone quality, intonation problems, …
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The Lombard effect on production and perception of Northern Vietnamese tones
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Lexical and post-lexical tones in Akan
… factors that contribute to the surface forms of tones in connected speech in Akan. Akan is an African tone language, which is spoken in Ghana. It has two level tones (low and high), automatic and non-automatic downstep. Downstep is the major factor that influences the surface forms of tones. The …
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The Production and Identification of Mandarin Tones in Context
… is to study the acoustic variation of Mandarin tones produced in context by native Mandarin speakers (Study I) and how these acoustic variations of Mandarin tones influence L2 learners’ identification of Mandarin tones (Study II). Study I revealed that both F0 contour and F0 height of the two …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
Tone learning is challenging for non-tone speakers. While pitch, like melody, is processed by the right hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal …