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20 Cards in this Set
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aggiustamento |
vowel modification; a technique for achieving an even scale throughout the registers of the singing voice |
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appoggio |
establishment of dynamic balance between inspiratory, phonatory and resonator systems in singing |
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bel canto |
beautiful singing; a term now applied to early solo vocal literature and singing style prior to the middle of the nineteenth century |
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chest voice |
descriptive term for sensations experienced in lower range where the heavy mechanism is allowed to predominate |
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chiaroscuro tone |
the "dark-light" tone which characterizes well-balanced resonance in the singing voice |
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coup de glotte |
onset of singing tone that results when airflow commences over occluded vocal folds resulting in a click-like sound |
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copertura |
technique of singing with voce chiusa timbre (well-balanced singing) |
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cover |
term used to describe laryngeal events coupled with excessive vowel modification that produce darkened vocal timbre |
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Fach |
term universally used to designate vocal category; type of singing voice |
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fioriture |
ornaments, cadenzas and florid passages |
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flageolet voice |
a register of the female voice extending above normal pitches of the head voice; the result of extreme vocal fold damping |
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passaggio |
vocal register pivotal point |
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register |
a series of consecutive vocal tomes of equal or similar timbre which can be distinguished from adjoining series of tones |
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vibrato |
natural result of the dynamic balancing of airflow and vocal fold approximation |
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vocal fry |
lowest register of the male voice (considered by some to be a prolonged, inefficient vocal onset) |
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voce aperta |
open, unskillful singing |
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voce chiusa |
well-balanced resonance in the singing voice |
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voce di petto |
vocal timbre produced largely by the vocals activity of the vocal folds (heavy mechanism) |
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voce piena |
full voice (dynamics and timbre) |
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voce de testa |
head voice |
