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Vocal music, any of the genres for solo voice and voices in combination, with or without instrumental accompaniment. It includes monophonic music (having a single line of melody) and polyphonic music (consisting of more than one simultaneous melody). This article deals with Western art music.
16 cze 2021 · In the decades spanning the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera singing underwent a profound transformation and became ‘modern’. I explore the formative elements of this modernity and its long-term effects on the way we sing today through the paradigmatic case of the tenor Enrico Caruso.
19 paź 2024 · Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Learn about the history of music and about theories of musical meaning since the 19th century.
Sprechstimme, (German: “speech-voice”), in music, a cross between speaking and singing in which the tone quality of speech is heightened and lowered in pitch along melodic contours indicated in the musical notation. Sprechstimme is frequently used in 20th-century music.
23 lip 2020 · This chapter examines range, tessitura, intonation, vibrato, and the more complex phenomenon of vocal register, which combines pitch and qualitative aspects, drawing upon examples from different cover recordings of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
15 lis 2022 · Mastering the art of pitch coordination is particularly essential and complex when aligning voice registers, and executing transitions in between them. Improper coordination and balance between pitch regulation muscles can lead to pitch inaccuracies and to decrease in voice range.
6 mar 2023 · Presenting an in-depth systematical and historical analysis of the evolution of word and gesture art, it gives extensive information on the anthropological, biological, and physiological influences and interactions in music and beyond.
