The Anatomy of a Scream

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Pano said:
Hmmmmm.....
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Here it is, over the top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgFuaVPM-E

then there's the last ten seconds here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPET4RAe6yQ

43 minute mark here to end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKK6GIETtQw

Peter Grimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWT0jsCbl28

I think this from the last public concert he did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxiR5TIlZpE

There was a roughness in his voice from the start of his career to the end and it added a great deal of dramatic intensity to the performance.

I don't think it's unique to Vickers. I think all hot opera singers have it but it's rather more obvious with him. You can sort of hear it in some of the Caruso recordings.

Domingo also. I used to think when he first started achieving prominence that he sounded like he was in pain.

I just Googled 'screaming "opera"' and got over a million results. here's something that's sort of relevant

technique - History of screaming in music throughout the world - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange

and some articles by journalist claiming folk like Pavarotti and Fleming say operatic singing is controlled screaming....

So the degree between big time singing and screaming is the degree of roughness?

Hey, you can even sign up for screaming lessons😱
 
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Michael, I've been thinking and looking around on utoob. roughness counts for a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGlnRahtqM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCUv9W0ViRc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31QSb_irLxI

OK. I found an online roughness calculator

SRA 2.0 © 2008 - Spectral and Roughness Analysis of Sound Signals

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
2.0

SPECTRAL AND ROUGHNESS ANALYSIS OF SOUND SIGNALS

[Copyright and Citation Information] - [Abstract] - [Paper (2007)]
SRA is a web application that calculates the auditory roughness of sound signals, based on a roughness calculation model by Dr. Pantelis N. Vassilakis. Sound files are analyzed using a spectral analysis method developed by Dr. Kelly Fitz & colleagues, and the spectral parameters are fed to the roughness calculation model. Programmed by Kelly Fitz and coordinated by Drs. Jonathan Middleton and Pantelis N. Vassilakis.
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I think you'll find the 2007 paper interesting.
 
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Make lotsa money.

Did you notice the wind and bowed instrumentalists also use roughness? Barcelona GKB, for example. (I've become a fan).

Carpathian singers cultivate it.

Old timey bad horns produced it in copious amounts.

I've got to read those two papers again a couple of times.
 
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FrankWW said:
Make lotsa money.

Did you notice the wind and bowed instrumentalists also use roughness? Barcelona GKB, for example. (I've become a fan).

Carpathian singers cultivate it.

Old timey bad horns produced it in copious amounts.

I've got to read those two papers again a couple of times.
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Some where, I think it was a German site, I saw a spectrum of Little Richard doing "Rip It Up". Scary! Now I can't find it.😕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_F3PaYgl0&index=5&list=PL6848182142599EF8
 
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