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The topic of phonation onset gestures is of great interest to singers, acousticians, and voice physiologists alike. The vocal pedagogue and voice researcher Manuel Garcia, in the mid-19th century, first coined the term “coup de la glotte”. Given that Garcia defined the process as “a precise articulation of the glottis that leads to a precise and clean tone attack”, the term can certainly be linked to the concept of “vocal onset” as we understand it today. However, Garcia did not, by any means, have the technical measures at his disposal to investigate this phenomenon. In order to better understand modern ways of investigating vocal onset—and the limitations that still exist—it seems worthwhile to approach the subject from a historical perspective. High-speed video laryngoscopy (HSV) can be regarded as the gold standard among today’s examination methods. Nonetheless, it still does not allow the three-dimensionality of vocal fold vibrations to be examined as it relates to vocal onset. Clearly, measuring methods in voice physiology have developed fundamentally since Garcia’s time. This offers grounds for hope that the still unanswered questions around the phenomenon of vocal onset will be resolved in the near future. One promising approach could be to develop ultra-fast three-dimensional MRI further.
The topic of phonation onset gestures is of great interest to singers, acousticians, and voice physiologists alike. The vocal pedagogue and voice researcher Manuel Garcia, in the mid-19th century, first coined the term “coup de la glotte”. Given that Garcia defined the process as “a precise articulation of the glottis that leads to a precise and clean tone attack”, the term can certainly be linked to the concept of “vocal onset” as we understand it today. However, Garcia did not, by any means, have the technical measures at his disposal to investigate this phenomenon. In order to better understand modern ways of investigating vocal onset—and the limitations that still exist—it seems worthwhile to approach the subject from a historical perspective. High-speed video laryngoscopy (HSV) can be regarded as the gold standard among today’s examination methods. Nonetheless, it still does not allow the three-dimensionality of vocal fold vibrations to be examined as it relates to vocal onset. Clearly, measuring methods in voice physiology have developed fundamentally since Garcia’s time. This offers grounds for hope that the still unanswered questions around the phenomenon of vocal onset will be resolved in the near future. One promising approach could be to develop ultra-fast three-dimensional MRI further.
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