head tone


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

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How to use head tone in a sentence

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

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

    How to Sing | Lilli Lehmann
  • There are also singers, male and female, who use too much head tone through their entire compass; such voices are called "white."

    How to Sing | Lilli Lehmann
  • The head tone is the voice of ordinary conversation and should form the basis of the public-speaking style.

    Talks on Talking | Grenville Kleiser
  • He would expect you to employ for that purpose simply a head tone, not a chest tone nor an abdominal tone.

    Certain Success | Norval A. Hawkins