CHARACTERISTICS OF SOUND
- A. Quality: distinctiveness of a particular voice or instrument, also called tone color or timbre.
- 1. Sound Sources: The Voice
- a. Vibrato: a purposeful vibration of the tone
- b. Straight tone: a sound with little or no vibrato
- c. Raspy: rough or gruff in quality in a singing voice
- d. Chest voice: produces a low, powerful, throaty vocal production; this vocal quality is often heard in rock music
- e. Head voice: produces a light, high tone that resonates in the head
- f. Falsetto: the male head voice, produced by singing in a high register above the normal male singing range
- g. Nasal quality: quality produced by using the sinuses and mask of the face as sound resonators
- 1. Sound Sources: The Voice
