Re: musical tones in speech (Pierre Divenyi )

Subject: Re: musical tones in speech
From:    Pierre Divenyi  <pdivenyi(at)MARVA4.NCSC.MED.VA.GOV>
Date:    Fri, 11 May 2001 11:19:52 -0700

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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