head tone

noun

1. (in singing) a vocal tone so produced as to bring the cavities of the nose and head into sympathetic vibration.

Example Sentences

Female singers should always begin the head tone on this degree of the staff and not on F and F♯, as is sometimes recommended.

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I must, therefore, give it much more head tone than the single tone requires.

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There are also singers, male and female, who use too much head tone through their entire compass; such voices are called "white."

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The head tone is the voice of ordinary conversation and should form the basis of the public-speaking style.

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He would expect you to employ for that purpose simply a head tone, not a chest tone nor an abdominal tone.

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