昆曲外文文献 Voice Characteristics of Young Girl Role in Kunqu Opera.pdf

ARTICLE IN PRESS Voice Characteristics of Young Girl Role in Kunqu Opera *D1XLiX DongD2X,X and †D3XJiangpingX KongD4X,X *Shenzhen, and yBeijing, China Abstract: Three electroglottographic parameters, fundamental frequency, contact quotient, and speed quotient were analyzed for two singers of Young girl role in Kunqu Opera. Each singer performed three conditions, sing- ing, stage speech, and reading lyrics. The phonation types adopted in different conditions were explored based on electroglottographic parameters. Fundamental frequency, contact quotient, and speed quotient showed different distributions among conditions. Five phonation types were used in singing and stage speech, which include (1) breathy voice, (2) modal voice with low degree of posterior glottal adduction, (3) modal voice, (4) falsetto, and (5) falsetto with high degree of posterior glottal adduction. The phonation strategies partly showed differences between singers. Different phonation type collocations were employed in singing and stage speech. The relation- ship between phonation types and pitch was complex. The phonation types actually used were different from and more complex than those in traditional Kunqu Opera singing theory. Key Words: Young girl roleSingingStage speechElectroglottographyPhonation type. TAGGEDH1INTRODUCTIONTAGGEDEND conversational speech have different acoustic features.1,9 The Kunqu Opera is a traditional performing art in China The details of the phonation method need further study. and respected as the ancestor of all Chinese operas. The The present study focuses on the phonation types (PTs) and voice timbres of Kunqu Opera singers are supposed to mir- i