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  2. Human voice - Wikipedia

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    The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in which the vocal folds (vocal cords) are the primary sound source. (Other sound production mechanisms ...

  3. Voice type - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Vocal range - Wikipedia

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    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. Other factors are vocal weight , vocal tessitura , vocal timbre , vocal transition points , physical characteristics, speech level, scientific testing, and vocal ...

  5. Vocal register - Wikipedia

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    e. A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds. These registers include modal voice (or normal voice), vocal fry, falsetto, and the whistle register. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Registers originate in laryngeal function. They occur because the vocal folds are capable of producing ...

  6. List of mezzo-sopranos in non-classical music - Wikipedia

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The mezzo-soprano is the middle female voice and the most common of the female singing voices, which tends to dominate in non-classical music, with vocal range that typically lies between the A below " middle C " (C 4) to the A two octaves above (i.e. A 3 –A 5). In the lower and upper extremes, some ...

  7. Soprano - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Falsetto - Wikipedia

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    The type of vocal cord vibration that produces the falsetto voice precludes loud singing except in the highest tones of that register; it also limits the available tone colors because of the simplicity of its waveform. [citation needed] Modal voice is capable of producing much more complex waveforms and infinite varieties of tone color.

  9. Mezzo-soprano - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A mezzo-soprano (Italian: [ˌmɛddzosoˈpraːno], lit.'half soprano'), or mezzo (English: / ˈmɛtsoʊ / MET-soh), is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e.