chest register
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- noun One of the lower ranges of the voice in singing or speaking. Also called chest voice.
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It is surprising that so many of those who are in the business of trying to teach voice, should be ignorant of the character and range of the male falsetto or head voice, but in spite of this ignorance, and more or less prejudice against its use, the fear that by using it one impairs the tones of the chest register or the usual singing voice, is utterly unfounded.
— The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs -
Teachers generally do not set hard and fast limits to the extent of each register; they direct that in singing up the scale the student pass gradually from chest to middle, middle to head voice, etc In most practical methods the chest register occupies about the same position; this is also true of the head register.
— The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern -
Her views may be thus briefly presented She recognized three registers, chest, falsetto, and head, with their subdivisions 1) The first chest register extends 1) The whole glottis (vocal to [Illustration: a b-flat] in men bands) is moved in loose and to [Illustration: c' c-sharp vibrations.
— Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) -
Basses and barytones sing in the chest register only; tenors are usually taught to sing in the chest register; but few teachers believe that the high falsetto is worth the expenditure of the time and energy necessary to attain facility in its use Probably in many male voices there are the distinctions of register Madame Seiler alludes to--_i.e._, first chest and second chest, or some change analogous to the middle of females; but, from one cause and another, this seems to readily disappear.
— Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) -
The term "straining" carries with it the idea of unpleasant sensations; all understand practically what this term means; yet the sensation of strain in a tenor carrying his chest register too high is no more marked than the sensation of relief when he changes to the falsetto When once the voice has been well placed, little attention need be, or is usually, paid consciously to the sensations associated of necessity with all changes in the vocal organs.
— Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
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