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Pitch-dependent adjustments of the vocal tract in the singing of Japanese traditional music

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Adjustments in the vocal tract correlate with the changes in pitch and vowel during singing.
The first formant frequency increased for the /i/ and /u/ vowels at higher pitches, supporting resonance theories.
We utilized magnetic resonance imaging to capture three-dimensional vocal tract shapes in a professional singer.
These findings suggest that resonance tuning strategies are active in the performance of traditional Japanese music.

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Analysis reveals vocal tract changes in response to vowel and pitch in satsumabiwa singing, indicating resonance tuning effects.

Kaburagi et al. (2025) studied this question.

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