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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 (), such as breaks and lifts within the voice.
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.
"A series of distinct, consecutive, homogeneous vocal tones that can be maintained in pitch and loudness throughout a certain range." [6] A register consists of the homogeneous tone qualities produced by the same mechanical system, whereas registration is the process of using and combining the registers to achieve artistic singing.
The whistle register is the highest phonational register, that in most singers begins above the soprano "high D" (D 6 or 1174.6 Hz) and extends to about an octave above (D 7 or 2349.3 Hz). It is created by using only the back of the vocal folds. The lower part of the whistle register may overlap the upper parts of the modal and falsetto ...
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).
The contralto singing voice has a vocal range that lies between the F below "middle C" (F 3) to two Fs above middle C (F 5) and is the lowest type of female voice.In the lower and upper extremes, some contralto voices can sing from two Bs below middle C (B 2) [1] to two B ♭ s above middle C (B ♭ 5).
In non-classical music, singers are defined by their genre and their gender and not by their vocal range. [2] When the terms soprano , mezzo-soprano , contralto , tenor , baritone , and bass are used as descriptors of non-classical voices, they are applied more loosely than they would be to those of classical singers and generally refer only to ...
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.