chest voice


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chest voice

or

chest register

n
(Music, other) a voice of the lowest speaking or singing register. Compare head voice
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Noun1.chest voice - the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing
register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
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References in classic literature ?
"I found him sitting there," went on Fyne impressively in his effortless, grave chest voice, "drafting his will."
* All voices other than the soprano have two registers--head voice and chest voice. To unify these registers, Mannstein likely advocated for some aspect of passive vowel modification.
British baritone Benjamin Lewis was sailing along quite nicely in Valentin's cavatina," Avmt de quitter ces lieux," but disrupted the continuity of his timbre by mixing head and chest voice on the high G and F of 'O Roi" before floating a lovely B flat on the final "Roi."
Chest Voice refers to full closure of the vocal folds, where the vibration occurs along the full length of the vocal folds.
Kim: To play 17; Vocal range-strong chest voice up to E, low to G.
I flip from my chest voice to my head voice really fast and Regina does that.
This point, which aligns with historical sources, supports Feldman's conclusion that a castrato singing in high chest voice (f/g-c1/e1) would be able to achieve the singer's formant (a "resonance in the 2,500-4,400 hertz region that allows a voice to project over an orchestra") while maintaining a relaxed, accessible means of production, or, as Feldman terms it, without "pushing" the voice (p.
"You sing in both the head and chest voice and there are a lot of "ooos" involved.
Dr Pawley said: "God Save the Queen doesn't invite high chest voice singing for most people's voices, and it lacks a real hook or climax where people feel compelled to join in and belt it out.
(To spare you the rudiments of laryngeal anatomy and physiology with which the pedagogically uninitiated may not be familiar, TAD equates with the ordinario in the male voice, chest voice in the female, TAD being the cross-gender term, based on laryngeal muscular activity, rather than societal norms or subjective resonance sensations.
"The head voice is used for excitement (children use it all the time), the chest voice expresses authority, the voice of the heart is saved for feelings and is very difficult to access if you're not connected to the feeling and finally, the gut voice conveys your deepest, truest beliefs.
"When Charlotte and I started working together, she told me she was struggling to differentiate between her chest voice and her head voice, so I focused on writing songs that would really suit her range.