Figure 5.6  Spectrogram of portion of Sylvie

The spectrogram was created from a microphone recording of a brief portion of a YouTube video, featuring a live performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock.   Because this performance is not part of Sweet Honey in the Rock's recorded repertoire, we shall examine instead a different recording, obtained from that repertoire.  The musical aspects of this spectrogram are quite similar to the ones we described for Figure 5.6 in the book.  The following spectrogram was obtained from the opening of the rendition of Precious Memories:

The opening begins with a bass voice, and then a baritone enters with some ``time-keeping'' vocals.  As the passage progresses more singers enter.  The tracks of the individual voices can be seen within the whole ensemble.  You can listen to it on Spotify:

You can buy the recording from Amazon, or ITunes, or  Spotify.