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  2. Belting (music) - Wikipedia

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    Belting (or vocal belting) is a specific technique of singing by which a singer carries their chest voice above their break or passaggio with a proportion of head voice. Belting is sometimes described as "high chest voice" or "mixed voice" (not to be confused with the mixing technique), although if this is done incorrectly, it can potentially ...

  3. Singing - Wikipedia

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    Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art songs or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Many styles of singing exist throughout the world. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised.

  4. Voice type - Wikipedia

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    A voice type is a classification of the human singing voice into perceivable categories or groups. Particular human singing voices are identified as having certain qualities or characteristics of vocal range , vocal weight , tessitura , vocal timbre , and vocal transition points ( passaggio ), such as breaks and lifts within the voice.

  5. Oversinging - Wikipedia

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    Professor and voice instructor Melinda Imthurn writes: "Since oversinging is not a technical term, it's hard to define. To one person it might mean pushing the voice beyond healthy singing technique, while to another it might mean embellishing a song too much, sometimes to the point where the melody is no longer recognizable."

  6. Overtone singing - Wikipedia

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    Polyphonic overtone singing Pachelbel's Canon, performed by Wolfgang Saus Chirgilchin performing various styles of Tuvan throat singing.. Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, or diphonic singing, is a set of singing techniques in which the vocalist manipulates the resonances of the vocal tract to arouse the perception of additional ...

  7. Vocal range - Wikipedia

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    Vocal range plays such an important role in classifying singing voices into voice types that sometimes the two terms are confused with one another. A voice type is a particular kind of human singing voice perceived as having certain identifying qualities or characteristics; vocal range being only one of those characteristics.

  8. Sprechgesang - Wikipedia

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    Sprechgesang-style talk-singing has appeared in contemporary pop, rock, punk, and alternative music since the 1960s. [7] The Sprechgesang vocal style is also prominent in the British post-punk scene of the 2020s, with several groups featuring a vocalist that uses the talk-sing method. [7]

  9. Screaming (music) - Wikipedia

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    Music sociologist Deena Weinstein has noted of death metal, "Vocalists in this style have a distinctive sound, growling and snarling rather than singing the words. Making ample use of the voice distortion box, they sound as if they had gargled with hydrochloric acid ."