Music and Lyrics Interactions and their Influence on Recognition of Sung Words: An Investigation of Word Frequency, Rhyme, Metric Stress, Vocal Timbre, Melisma, and Repetition Priming
This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics. Twenty-seven participants listened to recordings of musical passages sung in English; each passage consisted of a brief musical phrase sung by a solo voice. Six vocalists produced the corpus of sung phr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2014-05-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v9i1.3729 |