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Definition of Chest voice
1. Noun. The lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing.
Definition of Chest voice
1. Noun. (phonology) a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Chest Voice
Literary usage of Chest voice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"D. VOCE DI PETTO, chest voice (Ger. Brust- stimme); VOCE DI TESTA, Head voice (Kopf-
... Open chest voice, there is every reason to believe, ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by John Gray McKendrick (1889)
"open, but in place of being almost a narrow slit as in chest voice, it is wide
open so as to ... chest voice, high tone. Description as in Fig. 441. (Mandl. ..."
3. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"Its quality is different from that of the chest-voice, and the transition from
... The falsetto never has the power and resonance of the full chest-voice. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"Open chest voice, there is every reason to believe, is in great part produced by
the drawing down of the larynx by means of the sterno-thyroid muscles, ..."
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