Quantitative Analysis of Passagi and Tessitura in Franz Schubert’s Erlkönig

This pilot study expands on a concept first described by Nicole Pizzorni et al. which determined the total time singing in a passaggio (or register transition) in a piece of music. The objective of this study is to develop a generalizable method of musical analysis to reveal the total time and percent of performance time a piece of music requires a singer to sing in a generalized passaggio area.