Vocal Resonation

Vocal Resonation

McKinney defines Vocal resonance as "the process by which the basic product of phonation is enhanced in timbre and/or intensity by the air-filled cavities through which it passes on its way to the outside air." Throughout the vocal literature, various terms related to resonation are used, including: amplification, enrichment, enlargement, improvement, intensification, and prolongation. Acoustic authorities would question many of these terms from a strictly scientific perspective. However, the main point to be drawn from these terms by a singer or speaker is that the result of resonation is to make a better sound.

Read more about Vocal Resonation:  Human Resonating Chambers, Sympathetic and Conductive Resonance, Factors Affecting Resonators, The Vocal Resonators in Detail

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