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Definition of Chest tone
1. Noun. The lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chest Tone
Literary usage of Chest tone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Method of Tone Production: A New and Complete Course of Voice Training by John Andrew Broekhoven (1908)
"The teacher may find it a task in this case to have the pupil obtain an idea of
the expanding action of the larynx cup necessary for the chest tone quality, ..."
2. In a Nutshell: Suggestions to American College Students by Dio Lewis (1883)
"It sounds queer to hear people talk of| chest-tones, for I suppose the phrase "
chest- tone" means that a certain tone is produced in the chest. ..."
3. Music (1899)
"It is to guard against the use of the chest tone, and the habit of loud ...
The chest tone, as children use it, is sometimes called the "street Arab" tone; ..."
4. The Art of Breathing as the Basis of Tone-production: ("the Old Italian by Leo Kofler (1890)
"Soon it became impossible to be engaged as a ' heroic tenor,' without, at least,
possessing high Bb in the chest-tone. The singers found it a more thankful ..."
5. The Voice as an Instrument by Ange Albert Pattou (1878)
"This tone is called a chest-tone; yet in the male voice, the identical tone is
called sometimes a closed, and sometimes an open tone. ..."
6. The Olive-branch: A Collection of Sacred Music : to which is Added Music for by Carlo Bassini, T. Edward Perkins, Thomas J. Cook (1860)
"... the chest tone cannot and will not be true; the falsetto will be mixed with
the chest tone, and in this way the execution will be heavy and fatiguing. ..."
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