Re: musical tones in speech

[Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno,

Do you trust Schoenberg? Well, when he wanted his singers to utter exact
pitches, he wrote notes and when he wanted melodic speech
(="Sprachgesang"), he wrote contours. The two results are unmistakably
different.

Pierre

At 01:47 PM 5/11/01 -0700, Bruno Repp wrote:


> How do you respond to Martin's point (with which I agree) that there
> is no hope of obtaining any distribution with discrete peaks from
> quasi-continuous F0 contours? Such contours consist in large part of
> the transitions between the inflection points that are believed to be
> significant in intonation.
>
> --Bruno

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