Whoop Timbre
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A term popularized by pedagogue Ken Bozeman describing the timbre of a treble voice singer using an acoustic strategy where the first resonance of the sung vowel is tracking the pitch being sung. Acoustically, its radiated spectrum has a dominant fundamental (first harmonic). It tends to be accompanied by mode two laryngeal registration (head voice). Its full, ‘round’ quality is characteristic of the Western classical operatic treble voice upper range, but the timbre can be also heard in mammalian howling, and as a celebratory alternative to yelling. Also called “hoot” by voice researcher Donald Miller.[1]
- ↑ "NATS July 2022 Pedagogy Workshop Working Group Three Science-Informed Terminology and Definitions for Voice Pedagogy" (PDF). Science-Informed Voice Pedagogy Resources. Retrieved March 9 2025.
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