HEAD TONE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head

Synonyms:

head register; head tone; head voice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("head tone" is a kind of...):

register ((music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head tone"):

falsetto (a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register)

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