Allan Vurma

Biographic Data

ID6708870
NAMEAllan Vurma
GIVEN NAMESAllan
FAMILY NAMEVurma
SIGNATUREVURMA A
AFFILIATIONSEstonian Academy of Music and Theatre
ORCID0000-0002-0654-7870
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Managing Reverberant Acoustics in Singing by Extending the Plosive Closures in Vowel–Plosive–Vowel Sequences

    Allan Vurma, Einar Meister et al.ARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2026

    Poor intelligibility of sung text often occurs in reverberant rooms due to masking by the reverberation tail of the singer’s voice. This study investigates whether elongating the plosive closure phase can improve the recognition of voiceless plosives in vowel–plosive–vowel sequences sung in reverberant rooms. We hypothesize that a longer plosive closure allows the reverberation tail from the preceding vowel to decay before the plosive burst, thus…

  • Vokaalide ja klusiilide intensiivsussuhted laulmisel teksti arusaadavuse mõjutajana

    Open AccessAllan Vurma, Tuuri Dede et al.ARTICLEMäetagused2023References: 2

    Aim. The objective of this study is to ascertain (1) whether there is a tendency in operatic singing by which, compared to speaking, the intensity of all speech sounds is greater, but the intensity of voiceless plosive bursts increases proportionally less than that of vowels, which may make the recognition of plosives more difficult; and (2) whether pronouncing the bursts of voiceless plosives more strongly would improve their recognition. Method…

  • Spectral envelope consistency singing diatonic scales with different dynamics contours

    Open AccessAllan VurmaARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2020

    This study was motivated by the frequently expressed opinion that in the classical style of singing one of the main objectives is the evenness of the voice over wide pitch and dynamic ranges. With an empirical experiment, we aimed to discover whether and how the acoustical parameters related to voice timbre change when professional male vocalists fulfil vocal tasks with changing pitch and dynamics. We asked 11 participants to produce one-octave D…

  • Hääle spektri mähiskõvera kuju stabiilsus varieeruva dünaamikaga heliredelite laulmisel

    Open AccessAllan VurmaARTICLEMäetagused2017References: 1

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  • Priorities in Voice Training

    Open AccessAllan Vurma, Jaan Ro et al.ARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2000

    The voices of 42 students studying classical opera singing at the Estonian Academy of Music were investigated to find any objectively definable qualities possibly correlating with the length of training. Each student's singing of a four-bar seven-word initial phrase from a well-known Estonian classical solo was recorded. The recordings were digitalized and subjected to acoustic analysis yielding the long-term average spectrum (LTAS) for each voic…