Características da qualidade vocal dos cantores sertanejos

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the vocal characteristics of country singers. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional field descriptive research, carried out in space with the necessary acoustic care to capture the voice, in November 2022, with the participation of 20 sertanejo style singers, with an average age of 27, 2 years old, ranging from 20 to 52 years old, all male, who were selected using the snowball sampling technique. The indications were made by singers, clients of singing teachers and speech therapists, and the recordings were scheduled through WhatsApp messages or telephone contact by the researchers. The voices captured using the visual analogue scale CAPE-V protocol were presented to 3 speech therapist judges, voice specialists, for auditory perceptual analysis using the same protocol. Results: it was found that the values found in relation to the general degree of alteration, varied from 22 to 52.3 points in the protocol, and 60% presented a mild to moderate degree of alteration, 35% presented a normal variability degree of vocal quality and only 5% had a moderate degree of alteration; with regard to roughness, it varied from 0 to 60.6 points, and 65% presented a mild to moderate degree of alteration, 25% a degree of normal variability of vocal quality and 10% a moderate degree of alteration; the degree of breathiness ranged from 0 to 57.6 points and 95% presented a normal degree of variability in vocal quality and 5% a degree of alteration from moderate to intense; in relation to the degree of tension, the variation ranged from 06 to 51.6 where 85% had a normal degree of variability in vocal quality and 15% a degree of change from mild to moderate; in the analysis of the singing voice, the degree of tension was predominant, and 65% presented tension during singing, 15% tension associated with roughness, 5% instability, 5% roughness, 5% tension associated with breathiness and 5% tension associated with instability.