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2. Vocal range - Wikipedia

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   Vocal pedagogists tend to define the vocal range as the total span of "musically useful" pitches that a singer can produce. This is because some of the notes a voice can produce may not be considered usable by the singer within performance for various reasons. [2] For example, within opera all singers must project over an orchestra without the ...

3. Vocal music - Wikipedia

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   Vocal music. A men's chorus from the 1940s or 1950s. Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally ...

4. Vocal harmony - Wikipedia

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   Vocal harmony. The Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet singing in four-part harmony at Walt Disney World. Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical ...

5. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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   Tibetan musical score from the 19th century. Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its analogs – printed books or pamphlets in English, Arabic, or other languages – the medium of sheet music ...

6. Portamento - Wikipedia

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   In music, portamento (pl.: portamenti; from old portamento, meaning 'carriage' or 'carrying'), also known by its French name glissade, is a pitch sliding from one note to another. The term originated from the Italian expression portamento della voce ('carriage of the voice'), denoting from the beginning of the 17th century its use in vocal ...

7. Vocal cords - Wikipedia

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   Vocal folds (speaking) In humans, the vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through vocalization. The length of the vocal cords affects the pitch of voice, similar to a violin string. Open when breathing and vibrating for speech or singing, the folds are controlled via the recurrent ...