Heroes and Villains: The Relationship between Pitch Tessitura and Sociability of Operatic Characters
Research in speech prosody and ethology suggests that pitch height indexes positive and negative social affects, in the sense that higher pitched voices are used to convey friendliness, whereas lower pitched voices are used to convey aggression (Bolinger, 1964). Research concerning animal calls sugg...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v9i2.4441 |