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Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A person whose profession is singing is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music ). [ 4][ 5] Singers perform music ( arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments.
Vocal range. Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate. A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. [ 1] It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech-language pathology, particularly in ...
Tuvan throat singing (or Mongolian throat singing) is a form of singing comprising several techniques; it is practiced in the Republic of Tuva, belonging to the Russian federation, [ 13][ 14][ 15][ 1] in Mongolia and in China. [ 16][ 2][ 17] Buddhist chants, found in some monasteries in India (Tibetan exiled communities) and Tibet, sometimes ...
Bass. v. t. e. 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 ). [ 1] Voice classification is most strongly associated with European classical music, though it, and the terms it utilizes, are used in other styles of music as well.
Vocal music. A men's chorus from the 1940s or 1950s. 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. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally ...
Overtone singing. Chirgilchin performing various styles of Tuvan throat 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 ...
t. e. A choir ( / ˈkwaɪər / KWIRE; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval ...
An eastern towhee ( Pipilo erythrophthalmus) singing, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, United States. Blackbird song. Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are ...