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223 relations: A cappella, Abdomen, Accompaniment, America's Got Talent, American Idol, Amplifier, Anatomy, Ancient Greece, Aria, Art music, Art song, Artists and repertoire, Audition, Auto-Tune, Backing vocalist, Baritone, Bass (voice type), Beat (music), Beatboxing, Bel canto, Bellows, Belting (music), Big band, Blue note, Blues, Blues rock, Boy soprano, Breathing, Broca's area, Brodmann area 47, Career, Carl Fischer Music, Chanson, Chest voice, Chiaroscuro (music), Chinese opera, Choir, Classical music, Coloratura, Composer, Consonant, Contemporary commercial music, Contralto, Countertenor, Country music, Crooner, Culture, Death growl, Descant, Don't Forget the Lyrics!, ... Expand index (173 more) »
A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
Abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent (often abbreviated as AGT) is a televised American talent show competition, and is part of the global ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell.
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American Idol
American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by Fremantle North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by Fremantle North America.
Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
Anatomy
Anatomy is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Aria
In music, an aria (arie,; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta,;: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work.
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Art music
Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value.
Art song
An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.
Artists and repertoire
Artists and repertoire (or A&R for short) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters. Singing and artists and repertoire are Occupations in music.
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Audition
An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer. Singing and audition are music performance.
Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune, or autotune, is an audio processor software released on September 19, 1997 by the American company Antares Audio Technologies.
Backing vocalist
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. Singing and backing vocalist are Occupations in music.
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Baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.
Bel canto
paren)—with several similar constructions (bellezze del canto, bell'arte del canto, pronounced in English as)—is a term with several meanings that relate to Italian singing. The phrase was not associated with a "school" of singing until the middle of the 19th century, when writers in the early 1860s used it nostalgically to describe a manner of singing that had begun to wane around 1830.
Bellows
A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air.
Belting (music)
Belting (or vocal belting) is a specific technique of singing by which a singer carries their chest voice above their break or passaggio with a proportion of head voice.
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Big band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
Blue note
In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from standard.
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.
Boy soprano
A male soprano (British and especially North American English) or boy treble (only British English) is a young male singer with a voice in the soprano range, a range that is often still called the treble voice range (in North America too) no matter how old.
Breathing
Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.
Broca's area
Broca's area, or the Broca area (also), is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain with functions linked to speech production.
Brodmann area 47
Brodmann area 47, or BA47, is part of the frontal cortex in the human brain.
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Career
A career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work and other aspects of life.
Carl Fischer Music
Carl Fischer Music is a sheet music publisher.
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Chanson
A chanson (chanson française) is generally any lyric-driven French song.
Chest voice
Chest voice is a term used within vocal music.
Chiaroscuro (music)
(Italian for "light-dark") is part of bel canto, an originally Italian classical singing technique in which a brilliant sound referred to as squillo is coupled with a dark timbre called.
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Chinese opera
Traditional Chinese opera, or Xiqu, is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China.
Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Coloratura
Coloratura is an elaborate melody with runs, trills, wide leaps, or similar virtuoso-like material,Oxford American Dictionaries.
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. Singing and composer are Occupations in music.
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Contemporary commercial music
Contemporary commercial music or CCM is a term used by some vocal pedagogists in the United States to refer to non-classical music.
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Contralto
A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.
Countertenor
A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.
Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
Crooner
A crooner is a singer that performs with a smooth, intimate style that originated in the 1920s.
Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
Death growl
The death growl is an extended vocal technique usually employed in death metal and other extreme subgenres of heavy metal music.
Descant
A descant, discant, or is any of several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (cantus) above or removed from others.
Don't Forget the Lyrics!
Don't Forget the Lyrics! is an international music game show.
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Ear
An ear is the organ that enables hearing and (in mammals) body balance using the vestibular system.
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Easy listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Extended vocal technique
Vocalists are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds.
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External intercostal muscles
The external intercostal muscles or external intercostals (intercostales externi) are eleven in number on both sides.
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Fach
The German system (literally "compartment" or "subject of study", here in the sense of "vocal specialization") is a method of classifying singers, primarily opera singers, according to the range, weight, and color of their voices.
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Falsetto
Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Formant
In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract.
Ghazal
The ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry.
Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.
Harmony
In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.
Head voice
Head voice is a term used within vocal music.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
Human mouth
In human anatomy, the mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food and produces saliva.
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
Humming
A hum is a sound made by producing a wordless tone with the mouth closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose.
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Internal intercostal muscles
The internal intercostal muscles (intercostales interni) are a group of skeletal muscles located between the ribs.
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Isicathamiya
Isicathamiya (where the c represents a tenuis dental click) is a singing style that originated from the Zulu people, a South African ethnic group.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jerome of Moravia
Jerome of Moravia (or Hieronymus de Moravia) (died after 1271) was a Scottish friar and music theorist.
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Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist)
Johannes de Garlandia (Johannes Gallicus) (c. 1270 – 1320) was a French music theorist of the late ars antiqua period of medieval music.
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Journal of Singing
The Journal of Singing is the peer-reviewed journal sponsored and published by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS).
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Kulning
Kulning or lokk is a Scandinavian form of herding calls predominantly performed by Norwegian and Swedish people often used to call livestock (cows, goats, etc.) down from high mountain pastures where they have been grazing during the day.
Larynx
The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. Singing and lead vocalist are Occupations in music.
Legato
In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.
Lied
In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Lip
The lips are a horizontal pair of soft appendages attached to the jaws and are the most visible part of the mouth of many animals, including humans.
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Lip sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced, the same as the word sink), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.
List of multilingual bands and artists
This is a list of multilingual bands and artists.
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List of opera directors
This list of opera directors is a list of notable stage producers and directors who have worked, or are working, in the opera world.
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List of voice disorders
Voice disorders are medical conditions involving abnormal pitch, loudness or quality of the sound produced by the larynx and thereby affecting speech production.
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Loudness
In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.
Lyrics
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses.
Margaret Cicely Langton Greene
Margaret Cicely Langton Greene OBE was a British speech and language therapist.
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Mariah Carey (album)
Mariah Carey is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Mariah Carey, released on June 12, 1990, by Columbia Records.
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Mbube (genre)
Mbube is a form of South African vocal music, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
Microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic, or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli was a German R&B music act from Munich.
Modal voice
Modal voice is the vocal register used most frequently in speech and singing in most languages.
Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Music director
A music director, musical director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. Singing and music director are Occupations in music.
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Music education
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Singing and music education are Occupations in music.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
Music of Greece
The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history.
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Music of Japan
In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern.
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Music of Latin America
The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Musician
A musician is one who composes, conducts, or performs music. Singing and musician are Occupations in music.
N-Acylethanolamine
An N-acylethanolamine (NAE) is a type of fatty acid amide where one of several types of acyl groups is linked to the nitrogen atom of ethanolamine, and highly metabolic formed by intake of essential fatty acids through diet by 20:4, n-6 and 22:6, n-3 fatty acids, and when the body is physically and psychologically active,.
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Nasal cavity
The nasal cavity is a large, air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
National Association of Teachers of Singing
The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) is a professional organization for singing teachers, and it is the largest association of its kind in the world.
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Neck
The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso.
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Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity or brain plasticity, is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization.
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Oliver Ditson
Oliver Ditson (October 20, 1811 – December 21, 1888) was an American businessman and founder of Oliver Ditson and Company, one of the major music publishing houses of the late 19th century.
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
Overtone singing
Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, or diphonic singing, is a set of singing techniques in which the vocalist manipulates the resonances of the vocal tract to arouse the perception of additional separate notes beyond the fundamental frequency that is being produced.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Palate
The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.
Paranasal sinuses
Paranasal sinuses are a group of four paired air-filled spaces that surround the nasal cavity.
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Passaggio
Passaggio is a term used in classical singing to describe the transition area between the vocal registers.
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
Pharynx
The pharynx (pharynges) is the part of the throat behind the mouth and nasal cavity, and above the esophagus and trachea (the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs respectively).
Phonation
The term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics.
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.
Phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.
Piano pedals
Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways.
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
Pitch correction
Pitch correction is an electronic effects unit or audio software that changes the intonation (highness or lowness in pitch) of an audio signal so that all pitches will be notes from the equally tempered system (i.e., like the pitches on a piano).
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Place of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
Practice (learning method)
Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior repeatedly, to help learn and eventually master a skill.
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Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.
Public address system
A public address system (or PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.
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Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
Recitative
Recitative (also known by its Italian name recitativo is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.
Record label
"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.
Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Singing and record producer are Occupations in music.
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Reed (mouthpiece)
A reed (or lamella) is a thin strip of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.
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Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.
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Resonance
In physics, resonance refers to a wide class of phenomena that arise as a result of matching temporal or spatial periods of oscillatory objects.
Rhyme
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.
Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Rhythm guitar
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.
Rising Star (franchise)
Rising Star is an international singing reality competition television franchise based on the Israeli singing reality competition television series HaKokhav HaBa (הכוכב הבא, meaning "The Next Star"), which is produced by Keshet Broadcasting Ltd.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is an Indian Hindi and Nepali (Franchise)-language reality singing television show.
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Scalene muscles
The scalene muscles are a group of three muscles on each side of the neck, identified as the anterior, the middle, and the posterior.
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Scat singing
Originating in vocal jazz, scat singing or scatting is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.
Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Screaming (music)
Screaming is an extended vocal technique that is popular in "aggressive" music genres such as heavy metal, punk rock, and noise music.
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Secular music
Non-religious secular music and sacred music were the two main genres of Western music during the Middle Ages and Renaissance era.
Sight-reading
In music, sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the practice of reading and performing of a piece in a music notation that the performer has not seen or learned before.
Sign singing
Sign singing or Karaoke signing is singing using sign language.
Sing-along
Sing-along, also called community singing or group singing, is an event of singing together at gatherings or parties, less formally than choir singing.
Singer-songwriter
A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. Singing and singer-songwriter are Occupations in music.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Solo (music)
In music, a solo (alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble. Singing and solo (music) are music performance.
Song
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.
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Songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. Singing and songwriter are Occupations in music.
Soprano
A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
Sound reinforcement system
A sound reinforcement system is the combination of microphones, signal processors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers in enclosures all controlled by a mixing console that makes live or pre-recorded sounds louder and may also distribute those sounds to a larger or more distant audience.
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Speech–language pathology
Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication difficulties, as well as swallowing disorders across the lifespan.
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Sprechgesang
Sprechgesang ("spoken singing") and Sprechstimme ("spoken voice"), more commonly known as speak-singing in English, are expressionist musical vocal techniques between singing and speaking.
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Steel bar
A steel bar, commonly referred to as a "steel", but also referred to as a tone bar, slide bar, guitar slide, slide, or bottleneck, is a smooth hard object which is pressed against strings to play steel guitar and is itself the origin of the name "steel guitar".
Sternocleidomastoid muscle
The sternocleidomastoid muscle is one of the largest and most superficial cervical muscles.
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Streaming media
Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.
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Sympathetic resonance
Sympathetic resonance or sympathetic vibration is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness.
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Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
Tessitura
In music, tessitura is the most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer (or, less frequently, musical instrument).
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Sing-Off
The Sing-Off was an American television singing competition featuring a cappella groups.
The Singing Bee (American game show)
The Singing Bee is a sing-along game show that originally aired on NBC and then CMT.
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The Voice (American TV series)
The Voice is an American singing reality competition television series that premiered on NBC on April 26, 2011.
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The X Factor
The X Factor is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment.
Thoracic diaphragm
The thoracic diaphragm, or simply the diaphragm (partition), is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in humans and other mammals that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity.
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Thorax
The thorax (thoraces or thoraxes) or chest is a part of the anatomy of mammals and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen.
Throat singing
Throat singing refers to several vocal practices found in different cultures worldwide.
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Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
Toasting (Jamaican music)
Toasting (rap in other parts of the Anglo Caribbean) or deejaying is the act of talking, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or beat by a deejay.
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Tongue
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod.
Tonotopy
In physiology, tonotopy (from Greek tono.
Tooth
A tooth (teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.
Trachea
The trachea (tracheae or tracheas), also known as the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi of the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all animals with lungs.
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.
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Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.
Vibrator (mechanical)
A vibrator is a mechanical device to generate vibrations.
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Vocal coach
A vocal coach, also known as a voice coach (though this term often applies to those working with speech and communication rather than singing), is a music teacher, usually a piano accompanist, who helps singers prepare for a performance, often also helping them to improve their singing technique and take care of and develop their voice, but is not the same as a singing teacher (also called a "voice teacher"). Singing and vocal coach are Occupations in music.
Vocal cords
In humans, the vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through vocalization.
Vocal fry register
The vocal fry register (also known as pulse register, laryngealization, pulse phonation, creaky voice, creak, croak, popcorning, glottal fry, glottal rattle, glottal scrape) is the lowest vocal register and is produced through a loose glottal closure that permits air to bubble through slowly with a popping or rattling sound of a very low frequency.
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Vocal music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.
Vocal pedagogy
Vocal pedagogy is the study of the art and science of voice instruction.
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Vocal range
Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate.
Vocal register
A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds.
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Vocal resonation
Vocal resonance may be defined as "the process by which the basic product of phonation is enhanced in timbre and/or intensity by the air-filled cavities through which it passes on its way to the outside air." Throughout the vocal literature, various terms related to resonation are used, including: amplification, filtering, enrichment, enlargement, improvement, intensification, and prolongation.
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Vocal weight
Vocal weight refers to the perceived "lightness" or "heaviness" of a singing voice.
Vocalese
Vocalese is a style of jazz singing in which words are added to an instrumental soloist's improvisation.
Vocoder
A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
Voice projection
Voice projection is the strength of speaking or singing whereby the human voice is used powerfully and clearly.
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Voice type
A voice type is a group of voices with similar vocal ranges, capable of singing in a similar tessitura, and with similar vocal transition points (passaggi).
Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Wernicke's area
Wernicke's area, also called Wernicke's speech area, is one of the two parts of the cerebral cortex that are linked to speech, the other being Broca's area.
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Whistle register
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.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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William Vennard
William Vennard (January 31, 1909 Normal, Illinois – January 10, 1971, Los Angeles, California) was a famous American vocal pedagogist who devoted his life to researching the human voice and its use in singing.
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Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
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Winsingad
WinSingad is a Microsoft Windows based software for singing training.
World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.
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Yodeling
Yodeling (also jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register or falsetto.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zee TV
Zee TV is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises.
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