head-voice

My intuition — my little head-voice — told me what I had done wrong.

CONCEIVED • by Rodello Santos 2009

Somehow, you just carried on talking in mostly coherent sentences, until the little head-voice shut up.

Acting the pundit Rebecca Front 2010

And Criswell, selected by McGlinn and EMI to perform Ethel Merman-type material, has the kind of ear-piercing head-voice belt that was really made more for modern Broadway theatres, with amplification and rock acoustics, than for the old-style stuff.

Addendum Jaime J. Weinman 2004

The Poet, however, was long and painfully accustomed to combat with enraged editors and lost no time in assuming the offensive, demanding indignantly in a high head-voice, before the Iron King had crossed his own threshold, why no quarters had been found for him and how much longer any one imagined that he would put up with the indignity of being bandied from one wretched house to another.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

Within this compass, the tenor makes use of two voices; the chest or natural voice -- which ranges over the whole of the lower octave and the lower half of the higher octave -- and the head-voice or falsetto, which is commonly used throughout the whole of the remainder of the upper octave, the higher notes of which can be reached only in the falsetto.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

The old Italian singing-masters gave names to parts of the vocal compass corresponding to the real or imaginary bodily sensations experienced in singing them; as chest-voice, throat-voice, head-voice.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

It is also fully recognized, that, when theoretically the head-voice alone is used, it yet, when carried to the lower tones, insensibly blends into the thick register; but if this equalization of registers is obtained so completely that no perceptible difference in quality of voice can be observed, why then the whole compass is practically the thin or head-register.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

The primary end, then, of the author has been to show a scientific basis for the use of what is herein called the head-voice of the child, and to adduce, from a study of the anatomy and physiology of the larynx and vocal organs, safe principles for the guidance of those who teach children to sing.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

'He has a remarkable head-voice, and will commence as a chorister.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Neapolitan song, in a faint, compressed head-voice, looking up at her again as his lips moved, looking straight into her face with a curious mocking caress as the muted _voix blanche_ came through his lips at her, amid the louder quavering of the mandoline.

The Lost Girl 1907