(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.
Voice
Definition:
(n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
(n.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
(n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything.
(n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
(n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
(n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
(n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
(n.) One who speaks; a speaker.
(n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
(v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
(v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
(v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
(v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
(v. i.) To clamor; to cry out.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
(3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(6) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
(7) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(8) Obviously it’s good to have all voices on the field.
(9) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(10) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(11) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(12) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(13) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(14) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(15) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(16) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(17) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(18) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(19) he asked in a low voice, referring to the Sunni insurgents sweeping across northern Iraq .
(20) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.