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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

head voice

or

head register

n
(Music, other) the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
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Noun1.head voice - the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
falsetto - a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register
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These include Italian fundamentals of diaphragmatic-costal breathing, elastic tension of the breath musculature, imposto (breath-resonance connection), chiaroscuro tonal quality, an importance of head voice in blending registers, use of consonants in balancing a tone, and a gestalt approach to singing.
RAWALPINDI -- Ahead of the annual Military Parade to mark Pakistan Day, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday released a second promo under head Voice of Every Pakistani'.
Williams (2013) Presently, singing in the upper register or head voice during the voice change is not general practice.
Potato Head voice Don Rickles once hosted in 1984 as well.
They are at the breaking point between my chest and head voice.'
Special mention must go to Andrew Watts as Edgar, whose role requires him to move from a traditional lyric tenor up into a vibrant countertenor head voice, a shift that he handles admirably.
He's better with the softer parts, in his middle range or head voice. The English material by Butterworth and Bush needed more passion and emotion, the songs coming off" as casual instead of committed.
"It's using your chest and head voice and alternating between the "It's using your chest and head voice and alternating between the two," explained Christian, rather mysteriously.
"It's using your chest and head voice and alternating between the two," explained Christian, rather "It's using your chest and head voice and alternating between the two," explained Christian, rather mysteriously.
IDIOM Worldwide Founder and CEO Shane Cormier is the former head of Special Artist Agency (Celebrity Voice-Over Division); Head Voice Over Agent at the Daniel Hoff Agency and Coast to Coast Talent.
Following the minimalist idea of agreement we propose for Pashto unergative constructions that nominative Case to subject nominals is assigned as a result of - features agreement between the functional head T and the subject nominals while accusative Case is assigned as a result of -features agreement with the functional head Voice; as in the past tense Pashto constructions is defective in the Chomskian (2001) sense.
India, March 18 -- H2W has offered dual head voice coil air bearing positioning Stage (VCS15-050-AB-LV-2) that is a precision, air bearing, two axis positioning system for high end applications.