head tone

American  

noun

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

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

head tone

As we have already seen, there is almost no limit to the height that can be reached by the pure head tone without admixture of palatal resonance.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

This is the correct attack for the head tone, or a tone taken in the upper register.

From Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing by Enrico Caruso

The head tone signifies, for all voices, from the deepest bass to the highest soprano,—excepting for the fact that it furnishes the overtones for each single tone of the whole vocal gamut,—youth.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

If they can vary the naturally full and sonorous quality of their head tone with an artistic falsetto, they are able to secure many beautiful effects by an interchange of registers.

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. Miller

This enables you to find your head tone.

From What Every Singer Should Know by Millie Ryan