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  2. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    In music, timbre (/ ˈtæmbər, ˈtɪm -, ˈtæ̃ -/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voices and musical instruments. It also enables listeners to distinguish different ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Human voice - Wikipedia

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    A certain vocal timbre. A region of the voice that is defined or delimited by vocal breaks. A subset of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. In linguistics, a register language is a language that combines tone and vowel phonation into a single phonological system.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Tessitura - Wikipedia

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    Tessitura. In music, tessitura (English: / ˌtɛsɪˈtʊərə / TESS-ih-TOOR-ə, UK also /- ˈtjʊər -/ -⁠TURE-, Italian: [tessiˈtuːra]; pl. tessiture; lit. 'weaving' or 'texture') is the most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer (or, less frequently, musical instrument). It is the range in which a given type of voice ...

  7. Register (music) - Wikipedia

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    A certain vocal timbre; or; A region of the voice set off by vocal breaks. [2] Speech pathologists and many vocal pedagogues recognize four vocal registers: the vocal fry, modal, falsetto, and whistle. To delineate these registers, pathologists specify vibratory pattern of the vocal folds, sequential pitches, and type of sound. [2]

  8. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    Elements of music. Music can be analysed by considering a variety of its elements, or parts (aspects, characteristics, features), individually or together. A commonly used list of the main elements includes pitch, timbre, texture, volume, duration, and form. The elements of music may be compared to the elements of art or design.

  9. Whistle register - Wikipedia

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    e. The whistle register (also called the flute register or flageolet register) is the highest register of the human voice, lying above the modal register and falsetto register. This register has a specific physiological production that is different from the other registers and is so called because the timbre of the notes that are produced from ...