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Voicing documentation of a pipe organ.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  18529386     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The paper begins with a brief presentation on the Parisian organ landscape, and then focuses on sound documentation of the historical organ of Sainte Elisabeth (Suret 1853, 3 keyboards and pedal, 40 stops, about 2500 pipes). Calibrated recordings of all the notes have been performed inside and outside the organ case, using several microphone positions. The methodology proposed by Pollard (J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106(1), July 1999, 360-370) is extended and applied to sound analysis for all the notes of the instrument. The analogies between the proposed sound description (or "voicing quality," described in terms of sharpness, loudness, tristimulus coordinates, transient building, and spectral centre of gravity) and human voice quality description are discussed. Both voicing of individual pipes and voicing of the instrument are analysed. "Voicing of the instrument" means voicing variations of the pipes for different notes or registers of a same stop, for different stops of a same division, and for different divisions of the instrument. This methodology may be applied to documentation and characterisation of the "style" of the instrument in terms of its acoustic signature, provided additional information on recording conditions and room acoustics are available.
Authors:
Christophe D'Alessandro
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America     Volume:  123     ISSN:  1520-8524     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Acoust. Soc. Am.     Publication Date:  2008 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-06-05     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7503051     Medline TA:  J Acoust Soc Am     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  3018     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
LIMSI-CNRS, B.P. 133, 91403 Orsay, France, cda@limsi.fr.
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