Bjørkøy Kåre, Laukkanen Anne-Maria
Music Department, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway.
Speech and Voice Research Laboratory, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
J Voice. 2023 Nov 9. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2023.07.028.
This study investigated whether individual coaching can improve role portrayal and emotional expression in opera secco recitatives.
An experimental comparative study.
Eighteen students (mean age 24 years) from Norway and Sweden majoring in opera singing volunteered as test persons. As singing tasks each test person studied a short opera secco recitative in their Voice Fach during 14 days. All recitatives were picked up from renowned Italian operas from the Classical period. The texts were translated in the singers' mother tongue but performed in Italian, a foreign language to all test persons Thirteen test persons were enrolled in a Test group, and they were coached individually for 1h in interpretation of their singing tasks. During the intervention the test persons combined speaking the translated text in their native dialects with singing the recitative in Italian. The test persons were asked to distinguish various emotions and motivation in the singing task, and rehearsed how to express the singing task equally distinctly in Italian as in their native dialects. The singing task was recorded a capella immediately before and after the intervention. The test persons in the Control group recorded their singing tasks pre and post 1 h self-directed rehearsing on their singing tasks, without any coaching.. The recordings of all test persons were presented in randomized order for ten expert listeners to rate the expression of emotions and role portrayal. The samples were also analysed acoustically.
Post coaching samples were rated significantly better in expression of various emotions and motivation compared to pre coaching samples. The Control group singers showed no significant changes in perceptual variables. Pausing increased in both groups after rehearsing.
A short individual coaching in performance of an opera recitative seemed to stimulate young opera singers` emotional and motivational expression.
本研究调查了个别辅导是否能改善歌剧干唱宣叙调中的角色塑造和情感表达。
一项实验性比较研究。
18名来自挪威和瑞典的歌剧演唱专业学生(平均年龄24岁)自愿作为测试对象。作为演唱任务,每个测试对象在14天内用自己的声部学习一段简短的歌剧干唱宣叙调。所有宣叙调均选自古典时期著名的意大利歌剧。文本被翻译成歌手的母语,但用意大利语演唱,而意大利语对所有测试对象来说都是外语。13名测试对象被纳入测试组,他们接受了1小时的个别辅导,内容是关于演唱任务的诠释。在干预过程中,测试对象将用母语方言说翻译后的文本与用意大利语演唱宣叙调相结合。要求测试对象在演唱任务中区分各种情感和动机,并排练如何用意大利语和母语方言同样清晰地表达演唱任务。在干预前后立即无伴奏录制演唱任务。对照组的测试对象在对演唱任务进行1小时自我指导排练前后录制了他们的演唱任务,没有任何辅导。所有测试对象的录音以随机顺序呈现给10位专家听众,让他们对情感表达和角色塑造进行评分。样本也进行了声学分析。
与辅导前的样本相比,辅导后的样本在各种情感和动机的表达上评分显著更高。对照组歌手在感知变量上没有显著变化。排练后两组的停顿都增加了。
对歌剧宣叙调表演进行简短的个别辅导似乎能激发年轻歌剧歌手的情感和动机表达。