falsetto
14
8.0
- noun
- /fɔlˈsɛtoʊ/
- Specialized
:
falsete
- In the song, her falsetto added an emotional depth that captivated everyone listening.
- falsetto register
- falsetto voice
He starts singing like, like falsetto, Paul McCartney falsetto.
- He starts singing like, like falsetto, Paul McCartney falsetto.
- We're going to start with Soulmido and continue on, but I'll start in falsetto.
- Great vibrato there, then falsetto, then pops in the falsetto.
Examples
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Throughout the year, time is spent singing in bass range, tenor range, and falsetto range.
Academic text (2008) -
Moore's vocal approach on this cut ranges from a giddy falsetto to his signature spoken word narration.
Blog text (21) -
"What are we going to do?" he said, his last word rising to a falsetto.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Pretty good," he answered in that annoying falsetto voice of his.
Fiction book (2000) -
The best way to assess a boy's voice is to identify the entire vocal range, excluding falsetto.
Academic text (2008) -
His voice shifted again, and he began talking in a piping falsetto.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then he asked, in a strange falsetto, "Ain't you the Widow Pommeroy?"
Fiction book (2000) -
The tramp shook his head to shake the bottomless falsetto out of his voice.
Fiction book (1997) -
Crooning, rasping, moaning, shouting, or rocketing into falsetto, he mingled James Brown's gusto and Al Green's finesse.
Blog text (6) -
During the concert, he impressed the audience with his falsetto during several high notes.
How High
56
1.0
- Specialized
14
8.0
- Specialized
1
7.1
- Specialized
1
5.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Falsetto comes from the Italian word falso 'false' plus the small ending -etto, so it once meant a 'little false' voice. That's why falsetto names the high, not-natural singing voice that sits above a singer's normal range.