English word senses marked with topical category "Singing"

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Subcategories: Musical voices and registers, Singing voice synthesis

Total 99 word senses

• Benedicite (Noun) A canticle, the Latin version of which begins with the word benedīcite (“praise ye!”), which may be used in the order for morning prayer in Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
• Gregorian chant (Noun) A style of unaccompanied monophonic singing in the Catholic Church.
• MMD (Noun) Initialism of molar mass distribution.
• alto (Noun) A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
• alto (Noun) A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
• alto (Noun) An alto saxophone.
• antiphony (Noun) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
• baritone (Noun) The male voice between tenor and bass.
• baritone (Noun) The musical range between tenor and bass.
• baritone (Noun) A person, instrument, or group that performs in the range between tenor and bass.
• basso (Noun) The double bass, or contrabasso.
• basso cantante (Noun) A voice with an upper range that is more developed than that of the basso profundo.
• basso profondo (Noun) A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.
• bel canto (Noun) An elegant style of singing characterized by beautiful tone and an effortless technique.
• belt out (Verb) To sing (a song) loudly; to emit (music) loudly.
• belter (Noun) A song suitable for forceful singing.
• blow (Verb) To expose, or inform on.
• blow out (Verb) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
• call and response (Noun) A musical technique in which one or more performers calls and others, often the audience, respond with alternating musical phrases.
• can belto (Noun) A vocal performance that is impressively powerful, but lacking in subtlety, nuance, and technical skill.
• cantu a tenore (Noun) A style of a capella vocal music native to Sardinia featuring a quartet of men singing a four-part harmony, and is characteristic for its use of throat singing.
• canzonet (Noun) A short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.
• castrato (Noun) A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.
• catch-breath (Noun) A pause to take a breath.
• chantepleure (Verb) To sing and cry at the same time.
• chanteuse (Noun) A female singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer.
• contralto (Noun) The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.
• countertenor (Noun) A male singing voice far higher than the typical male vocal range.
• croon (Verb) To soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.
• croon (Verb) To lament, to moan.
• croon (Verb) To make a continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; to bellow, to low.
• croon (Noun) A soft, low-pitched sound; specifically, a soft or sentimental hum, song, or tune.
• croon (Noun) A continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; a bellow.
• duet (Noun) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
• duet (Noun) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
• duet (Verb) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
• duet (Verb) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
• duetting (Noun) The singing or playing of a duet.
• fakebook (Noun) Alternative form of fake book
• falsetto (Noun) The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by using the next highest vocal folds above those used for speech and normal range singing. It is commonly confused with the head voice register.
• foresing (Verb) To sing beforehand or in advance.
• furloid (Noun) a singing voice synthesis voicebank with a furry mascot
• glee (Noun) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
• glee club (Noun) A secular choir or choral group.
• gridle (Verb) To sing as a form of begging, especially to sing hymns badly with the aim of soliciting donations out of sympathy.
• hyporchema (Noun) A form of ancient Greek choral song accompanied by dance
• karaoke (Noun) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
• karaoke (Noun) A karaoke parlour.
• karaoke (Noun) An exercise in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other while walking sideways to stretch various parts of the lower body and core.
• karaoke machine (Noun) A machine which plays recorded (typically instrumental) tracks that can be sung along to with a microphone and with reference to lyrics displayed on a screen.
• karaoke system (Noun) A karaoke machine.
• kulning (Noun) A Scandinavian vocal musical form with high-pitched echoes, traditionally used to call livestock down from the mountain pastures.
• lampadarius (Noun) The leader of the second (left) choir of singers in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
• lip sync (Noun) The synchronization of prerecorded audio signals and movement of the lips such that there is no lack of simultaneity between them.
• lip-sync (Verb) To move lips in synchronization with sounds (generally recorded) so it appears they are the source of the sounds.
• machicotage (Noun) A style of singing, especially of sacred music, cultivated from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, centered on Paris, and derived from the Gallican ritual; in this style vocal lines are decorated with improvised ornamentation, and differentiated from each other in a polyphonic composition also by tone color.
• mark (Verb) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
• mezzo-soprano (Noun) A voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
• noodle (Verb) To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
• outsing (Verb) To sing better, longer or louder than.
• overtone singing (Noun) A type of singing in which the individual singer manipulates the resonances of the voice to produce notes independent of the fundamental frequency
• paean (Noun) A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
• paean (Noun) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
• paean (Noun) An enthusiastic expression of praise.
• patter song (Noun) A type of humorous song sung at a rapid tempo, typical of comic opera, operettas, and musicals.
• playback singer (Noun) A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially Bollywood musicals, where actors lip-sync them.
• plug and play (Noun) Unmodified usage of pre-tuned project files.
• scat (Noun) Scat singing.
• scat singing (Noun) The act of vocalizing, using nonsense syllables or sounds (e.g. "dool-yuh doot-n dwee-dah") to create an improvised melodic solo, often imitative of other musical instruments.
• sing along (Noun) A gathering or event where participants are encouraged to add their voices in song.
• sing small (Verb) To sing softly.
• singing (Noun) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
• singsong (Noun) Bad singing or poetry.
• solfège (Noun) A method of sight singing that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the seven principal pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The fixed-do system uses do for C, and the moveable-do system uses do for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is do if the piece is in the key of B). The relative natural minor of a scale may be repr…
• songbook (Noun) A book containing songs.
• sopranista (Noun) An adult male singer who sings music written in soprano range without the use of falsetto.
• soprano (Noun) The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef.
• stagger breathe (Verb) within a choir or wind instrument ensemble, to breathe independently so that no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect
• stagger breathing (Noun) a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect
• sticheron (Noun) A hymn, often written in cycles and sung in alternation with psalm verses, used in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
• talkloid (Noun) the art of producing speech using the VOCALOID singing voice synthesis software
• tenor (Noun) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
• tenor (Noun) A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
• tenor (Noun) A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.
• tenor (Noun) A tenor saxophone.
• treble (Adjective) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
• treble (Noun) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
• treble (Noun) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
• tune (Verb) to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)
• unsingably (Adverb) Such that it cannot be sung.
• vocable (Noun) A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
• vocaboomer (Noun) someone who entered the VOCALOID fandom prior to ~2015
• vocalism (Noun) Speaking or singing.
• voce di petto (Noun) chest voice
• voce di testa (Noun) head voice
• voicebank (Noun) A prepared collection of source voice samples for use in voice synthesis software.
• warble (Noun) The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
• yarl (Noun) A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
• yodel (Verb) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

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