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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. 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. Lyric soprano - Wikipedia

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    A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra. The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and other sympathetic characters in opera. Lyric sopranos have a range from approximately middle C (C 4 ...

  5. Human voice - Wikipedia

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    Human voice. The spectrogram of the human voice reveals its rich harmonic content. 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 ...

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

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    List of sopranos in non-classical music. The soprano singing voice is the voice of children and the highest type of female voice with vocal range that typically lies between "middle C" (C 4) and "high C" (C 6) [1] The soprano voice (unlike the mezzo-soprano voice) is stronger in the head register than the chest register, resulting in a bright ...

  7. Voice classification in non-classical music - Wikipedia

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    The term "non-classical music" is typically used to describe music in jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock styles. In the United States, the term contemporary commercial music (CCM) is used by some vocal pedagogues. [3] Voice classification systems and vocal type terms were initially created for the purpose of classifying voices ...

  8. Delta blues - Wikipedia

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    Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.

  9. Vocal register - Wikipedia

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    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 several ...