One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

Much of this lifelike quality results from Mussorgsky's care in basing his vocal line on natural speech inflections.

By using techniques such as bending and vibrato, the guitarist can make the guitar express a near vocal quality.

As the vocal folds vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a " buzzing " quality to the speech, called voice or voicing or pronunciation.

Shearer has been vocal about what he perceives as the show's declining quality.

Although Hatfield shared vocal duties with Strohm in the group, she quickly stood out due to her unique vocal quality ; her somewhat thin, girlish voice gave the group a youthful, innocent sound that was nevertheless belied by often-caustic lyrics and a vocal delivery punctuated frequently by harsh, distorted screams ( in live performances more so than on recordings ).

This gives Punch a vocal quality as though he were speaking through a kazoo.

Moreover, Michelet distinguished between what he called, " the bizarre and monstrous " quality of the Middle Ages and the democratic values that he, as a vocal Republican, chose to see in its character.

Less invasive imaging methods such as x-rays or ultrasounds do not work because the vocal cords are surrounded by cartilage which distort image quality.

A register in the human voice is a particular series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds, and possessing the same quality.

* A 08 Voice Disorder —“ A voice disorder is diagnosed based on abnormal production and / or absence of vocal quality, pitch, loudness, resonance, and / or duration, which usually persists over time and is inappropriate for an individual's age or sex ”

" Another basic problem — famously spoofed in the 1952 film Singin ' in the Rain — was that some silent-era actors simply did not have attractive voices ; though this issue was frequently overstated, there were related concerns about general vocal quality and the casting of performers for their dramatic skills in roles also requiring singing talent beyond their own.

His voice was controversial, the vocal quality being unusual.

Its quality did not always record well, but there is no doubt that he had unusually good articulation and vocal agility, of which Britten also took advantage.

) The pitch-shifting in joining the versions gave Lennon's lead vocal a slightly other-worldly " swimming " quality.

A register in the human voice is a particular series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds, and possessing the same quality.

** Vocal registration: a particular series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds, and possessing the same quality, which originate in laryngeal function, because each of these vibratory patterns appears within a particular range of pitches and produces certain characteristic sounds.

# Developing consistent vocal production with a consistent tone quality

An important goal of vocal development is to learn to sing to the natural limits of one's vocal range without any obvious or distracting changes of quality or technique.

It refers to the actual physical sensations of depth in the body and vocal mechanism, and to mental concepts of depth that are related to tone quality.

Its basis is the Romanian shepherd's lament, so it has an expressive vocal quality, like the singing of the khazn.

The repertoire of sarangi players is traditionally very closely related to vocal music.

At the age of seven, he learned sarangi and vocal from his paternal uncle Kale Khan, who was also a singer and composer of repute, and after his death he picked up a few compositions from his father who had re-married by this time.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

In most species, the sound is produced by expelling air from the lungs over the vocal cords into an air sac or sacs in the throat or at the corner of the mouth.

" The second exercise is the " Whispered Ah ," which is used to coordinate and free breathing & vocal production.

As an example among performance-art applications, the Alexander technique is used and taught by classically trained vocal coaches and musicians.

His instrumental music, though not without interest, is curiously antiquated as compared with his vocal works.

Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance.

The shofar is used by itself, without any vocal accompaniment, and is limited to a very strictly defined set of sounds and specific places in the synagogue service.

* In music recording, autocorrelation is used as a pitch detection algorithm prior to vocal processing, as a distortion effect or to eliminate undesired mistakes and inaccuracies.

" It is written in short phrases in order to be acted rather than sung ... tailor-made for Glynis Johns, who lacks the vocal power to sustain long phrases.

Voiceless aspiration occurs when the vocal cords remain open after a consonant is released.

An easy way to measure this is by noting the consonant's voice onset time, as the voicing of a following vowel cannot begin until the vocal cords close.

Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s.

As in the Ninth Symphony, the vocal forces sing a theme first played instrumentally, and this theme is highly reminiscent of the corresponding theme in the Ninth Symphony ( for a detailed comparison, see Choral Fantasy ).

This vocal style was influenced by Quorthon of Bathory, and is one of the traits that distinguishes traditional black metal vocals from those of death metal, which usually uses low-pitched growls.

Breathy voice ( also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration ) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal ( modal ) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them.

One is to hold the vocal cords apart, so that they are lax as they are for, but to increase the volume of airflow so that they vibrate loosely.

A second is to bring the vocal cords closer together along their entire length than in voiceless, but not as close as in modally voiced sounds such as vowels.

The distinction between the latter two of these realizations, vocal cords somewhat separated along their length ( breathy voice ) and vocal cords together with the arytenoids making an opening ( whispery voice ), is phonetically relevant in White Hmong.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

* Cerdd Dant ( string music ) or Canu Penillion ( verse singing ) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition.