Choral singing

["R. Parncutt" <psa03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There seems to be a greater tendency for unaccompanied choirs to go
> flat than sharp over time. My impression is that this asymmetry is
> greater for choirs than for individuals.

I think this hunch would be hard to demonstrate - what are the confounds and
how to control them, etc. There's not much research on choral intonation,
and most of it seems to be by Sten Ternstrom, sten@speech.kth.se.
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