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chest voice

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chest voice, register
n
(Music, other) a voice of the lowest speaking or singing register Compare head voice
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Noun1.chest voice - the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing
register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments


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However, if you are singing into falsetto or if you have not found your chest voice at all (some women actually have this problem), you will be letting excess air escape while you are singing and you will be running out of breath much sooner than you wish to.
For example, Montserrat Caballe's chest voice in a 1974 broadcast of I Vespri Siciliani "is pungent where needed and free of the ugly graininess that she sometimes has favored" (p.
Yodeling is defined as singing so that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and a falsetto, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
 
 
 
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