Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato ( see below ), one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a " super-high " tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that.

This may indicate a strident quality in the upper register, but in the low register it was feeble and buzzing.

It also lets the player play for an extended time in the upper register.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

This is usually done by having a set of jacks for each choir, and a mechanism for " turning off " each set, often by moving the upper register ( through which the jacks slide ) sideways a short distance, so that their plectra miss the strings.

System / 360 Model 65 operator's System console | console, with processor register | register value lamps and toggle switch es ( middle of picture ) and " Big Red Switch | emergency pull " switch ( upper right ).

The development of the upper, " clarino " register by specialist trumpeters — notably Cesare Bendinelli — would lend itself well to the Baroque era, also known as the " Golden Age of the natural trumpet.

Where Armstrong emphasized showmanship and virtuosity, Beiderbecke emphasized melody, even when improvising, and — different from Armstrong and contrary to how the Bix Beiderbecke of legend would be portrayed — he rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register.

While Armstrong often soared into the upper register, Beiderbecke stayed in the middle range, more interested in exploring the melody and harmonies than in dazzling the audience.

Since the pitch of each note is largely affected by the temperature of the steam, accurate tuning is nearly impossible ; however, the off-pitch notes ( particularly in the upper register ) have become somewhat of a trademark of the steam calliope.

Inexpensive rolled metal whistles, such as those from Cooperman Fife and Drum ( which also produces high-end instruments ) may be very airy in sound, and may be difficult to play in the upper register ( second octave ).

Its upper register sounded somewhat like a trumpet or modern cornet, the lower register resembling the sackbutts that often accompanied it.

The glockenspiel is limited to the upper register, and usually covers about two and a half to three octaves, but can also reach up to 3. 5 octaves.

Hands cross at bar 13 from the upper register to the lower, bringing back this syncopation for another two bars.

In response to the ( in his view ) pejorative connotation of the term falsetto, Giles refuses to use it, calling the upper register " head voice.

Associated with the rise of the baritone in the 19th century, Martin was well known for his fondness for falsetto singing, and the designation ' Baryton Martin ' has been used ( Faure, 1886 ) to separate his voice from the ' Verdi Baritone ', which carried the chest register further into the upper range.

The opening of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov bears a close resemblance to the first theme of Balakirev's Second Overture, while Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia begins with a dominant pedal extending over 90 bars in the upper register of the violins, a device Balakirev used in his First Overture.

Among the best aspects of his playing are his tone and clear, crystalline upper register.

Generally playing at mezzoforte volume, he employed the entire keyboard from deep bass tones to sonorous mid-register chords to sparkling upper register runs.

The roles they sing often demand not only the use of the lower register but also leaps into the upper tessitura with highly ornamented, rapid passages.

In both cases, the upper address bits are provided by the PCLATH register.

The upper register ( row ) of the opened view shows Christ the King ( but see below ) between the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist.

so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new, but with, of course, important minority enclaves.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest, but it was an objective pain, in no way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; ;

Warren eased his rifle's safety off and gently, slowly sneaked another clip of ammunition from one of the cloth bandoleers that marked the upper part of his body with an Aj.

This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.

In the lower center rack an 8-channel recorder indicates the percentage of carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the upper and lower lobes of one lung, the total volume of inhalation per breath, the flow of air from both lobes, and the pressure of the two lobes with respect to each other.

First, the upper portion requires series of films for every child, consisting of those from Hand, Elbow, Shoulder, Knee, and Foot.

Second, the upper portion permits comparison of maturity levels of an equal number of growth centers from the long, short, and round bones of the five regions.

Pains in the back of the leg and in the abdomen were prevented from reaching the upper body by tying a rope about the patient's waist.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh, an African Chokwe people | Chokwe statue, detail from the The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa | Shisa lion

They are likely to have lived on areas of the ocean floor that received little or no light and fed on detritus that descended from upper layers of the sea to the bottom.

The Egyptians eventually withdrew from the region after failing to gain the upper hand over the Hittites, and becoming wary of the power of Assyria, which had destroyed the Mitanni Empire.

They are distinguished by the nerve cells affected ( upper and lower motor neuron ), and the symptoms that result from this damage:

The line running from the upper left to lower right reads mt l b < sup > c </ sup > lt.

Rock wall foundations and beam holes and " cavates " carved into volcanic tuff remain from upper floors.

All identifiable fossils of Albertosaurus sarcophagus are known from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.