Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sprechstimme.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From chilling Vincent Price sprechgesang to hideous prosthetics
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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From chilling Vincent Price sprechgesang to hideous prosthetics
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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For once, adequate nuance is audible in Irons 'rapping - there's a little growl in "interga - lac-tic" - and the same goes for Harris-White's vocal contribution, which ping-pongs between icy sprechgesang and heathery singing.
The Seattle Times 2010
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For once, adequate nuance is audible in Irons 'rapping - there's a little growl in "interga - lac-tic" - and the same goes for Harris-White's vocal contribution, which ping-pongs between icy sprechgesang and heathery singing.
The Seattle Times 2010
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More light hookage and sprechgesang-style singing a la Tricky would make this act pretty formidable.
Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life Glide Magazine 2010
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More light hookage and sprechgesang-style singing a la Tricky would make this act pretty formidable.
Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life Glide Magazine 2010
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Disgusting things you'd never anticipate? sprechgesang those immortal words in 1980, he was referring to a party out of bounds.
Clips Nation 2009
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Giovanna Cacciola's voice sounds like a mix of Björk, PJ Harvey, and Lydia Lunch, her style somewhere between sprechgesang and shouting.
DOA Jacob Price 2009
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