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Vocal range. Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate. A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. [1] It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech-language pathology, particularly in ...
A soprano (Italian pronunciation: [soˈpraːno]) is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C 4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A 5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C 6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music.
A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.It is the highest male chest voice type. [1] Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below middle C to the G above middle C (i.e. B 2 to G 4) in choral music, and from the second B flat below middle C to the C above middle C (B ♭ 2 to C 5) in ...
Range (music) Written range of a saxophone. In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice, the equivalent is vocal range. The range of a musical part is the distance between its lowest and highest note.
Baritone. Bass. v. t. e. A voice type is a group of voices with similar vocal ranges, capable of singing in a similar tessitura, and with similar vocal transition points (passaggi). [1] Voice classification is most strongly associated with European classical music, though it, and the terms it utilizes, are used in other styles of music as well.
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
Tessitura. In music, tessitura (English: / ˌtɛsɪˈtʊərə / TESS-ih-TOOR-ə, UK also /- ˈtjʊər -/ -TURE-, Italian: [tessiˈtuːra]; pl. tessiture; lit. 'weaving' or 'texture') is the most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer (or, less frequently, musical instrument). It is the range in which a given type of voice ...
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. [1][2][3] A person whose profession is singing is called a singer, artiste or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). [4][5] Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments.