(n.) A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Raven features a singer, simply called Antony, with a wonderful, shimmering voice - almost castrato.
(2) The age of the castrato voice is a remarkable episode.
Falsetto
Definition:
(n.) A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or if Kelly Rowland has got over that mysterious debilitating throat infection which comes on every time she thinks of the heyday of Destiny's Child and juxtaposes it with watching a skeleton in a TK Maxx tracksuit doing falsetto Kylie Minogue.
(2) Expect lots of shimmery falsetto and subtle electronic pulses as Ware once more puts the beat into downbeat.
(3) This paper reports about a female mutational falsetto, that means an unusual high (309 Hz base frequency) fundamental frequency of the speaking voice in a 19-year-old girl.
(4) The treatment, which is applicable to falsetto and breathy voice, as well as onset or release of phonation in the absence of vocal fold collision, is harmonized with former treatments based on two-mass models and collapsible tubes.
(5) However, fans who read Mojo's cover story on Prince earlier this year and might have expected a tough guitar rock song might be surprised: The Breakdown is a slow, stately ballad, with lush, layered vocal harmonies, and little guitar, Prince's voice ascending into a falsetto holler.
(6) From the investigation, the following results were obtained: (1) the measurements of the light deviations sensed by the photoelectric glottograph during laryngeal vibrations produced curves that approximated those developed from photographic film frame-by-frame measurements of the visual image in vocal fry, modal, and falsetto voice registers, and (2) the Fourier coefficients of the compared data indicated that there was no significant difference between the curves.
(7) Repeating the lyrics “been telling myself that I can roll with the changes” in a falsetto that matures with age, he looks anxiously aware of the lyrical poignancy.
(8) Four voice types were examined: modal, vocal fry, falsetto, and breathy.
(9) From each subject glottal volume-velocity samples were collected of normal, loud, and soft voice; falsetto and creaky voice; monosyllables with rising and failing intonation; and three-syllable utterances containing primary lexical stress on one of the three syllables.
(10) 2) Voice range: We found that the natural voice range for male decreases with increase of age, while the falsetto voice range increases.
(11) Photograph: Rex Warm-up the falsetto, crack the lid on the pomade, Clint Eastwood's musical about the Four Seasons is set to be as slick as they come.
(12) I'd always be up for a revival of West Side Story, James Lapine and William Finn's Falsettos and Jason Robert Brown's brilliant Parade , but the show I long to see again is Stephen Sondheim's 1971 Follies, that aching paean to tarnished dreams and lost innocence set during the reunion of a bunch of Ziegfeld-style hoofers on the eve of the destruction of the theatre where they performed 30 years previously.
(13) His uncle, Francis Ford Coppola , nearly fired him for the falsetto he insisted on using for the role of Charlie in Peggy Sue Got Married .
(14) Matt Helders is on impressive falsetto duties, but who cares about falsetto when you’ve got a massive “A” and “M” burning away in the background?
(15) I’d say it was all there in 1979’s I Wanna Be Your Lover , Prince’s first hit: the falsetto pout, the swivelling guitar riff, the effortless fusion of funk and pop, the teasing pause before the word “lover”… oh, and the request to “be your mother and your sister too”.
(16) Neither vertical laryngeal movement nor intrinsic laryngeal activity showed any pattern of relationship to changes between modal and falsetto voice registers.
(17) For one thing, Prince is, by common consent, the one bona-fide, no-further-questions musical genius that 80s pop produced; a man who can play pretty much any instrument he choses, possessed of a remarkable voice that can still leap effortlessly from baritone to falsetto.
(18) In the falsetto, however, the EMG signal power is low.
(19) However, intensive voice therapy over 12 months failed to restore the former quality of the falsetto voice.
(20) Simultaneous physiologic measures were obtained on four young adult male subjects as they sustained phonation at seven frequencies within their modal-to-falsetto voice range.