A singer is a musician who uses his or her voice to produce music. Usually, singing refers to vocal melody only, though vocalist is a similar term which also encompasses non-melodic sounds and effectively includes anyone using their voice as part of a musical composition, including spoken word, death growl, Hardcore screaming, and rapping. A musician is a person who plays or composes music Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music: A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument. ... The human voice consists of sound made by a human using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, screaming. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... The death grunt (also referred to as death growl or death vocal) is a singing style most usually employed by vocalists from the death metal musical genre, but also utilised in different variations by vocalists from genres which derive from heavy metal music. ... Hardcore punk (usually referred to simply as hardcore/hXc) is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ... West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg performing for the US Navy For information on rap music, see hip hop music. ...

According to Alfred Alexander (formally a ENT or Ear-Nose-Throat specialist consultant to the home office), "a singer is a person of adequate musicality, who is gifted with a voice of such power and beauty that competent judges can recommend singing as a career". Alexander believes that 1 in 50,000 in the UK possess such gifts, which means in England (800,000 births a year average) 16 people are born with such a voice a year, making 500 "first class voices" active in any particular generation (taken as 30 years) at any one time.^[1] The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo , or Small or Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. ... Musicality means making the dance fit the music. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Gifted education. ... For beauty as a quality of a persons appearance see: Physical attractiveness. ... In the music industry, artist and repertoire (A&R) refers to the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and artist development. ... Look up Career in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Generation (From the Greek γιγνμαι), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. ...

A lead singer (in barbershop music simply called a lead) is one who sings the primary vocals of a song, as opposed to a backing singer who sings backup vocal(s) to a song or harmonies to the lead singer. An exception is in five-part gospel a cappella music, where the lead is the highest of the five voices and sings a descant, never the melody which may be in any of the other four parts. The Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet at Disneyworld Barbershop harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1940s-present), is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition. ... A backing vocalist or backing singer (or, especially in the U.S., backup singer or sometimes background singer) is a singer who sings in harmony with the lead vocalist, other backing vocalists, or alone but not singing the lead. ... Gospel music refers to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the first quarter of the twentieth century or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by predominately white Southern Gospel artists. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... Descant or discant can refer to different things in music; A form of medieval music where one person sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

A singer is taught by a vocal teacher, and a vocal coach. The vocal coach helps bring a song into a suitable musical key and may help with arrangements, a vocal teacher will teach technique and musical theory. Singers may be their own teachers or coaches to some extent. In Music theory, the key is the tonal center of a piece. ...

A singer practices and warms up using vocalise. A vocalise is a vocal exercise (often one suitable for performance) without words, which is sung on one or more vowel sounds. ...

Human voice

Ercole de' Roberti: Concert, c. 1490

In European classical music and opera, voices are treated just like musical instruments. Composers write music for these instruments, understanding the skills and vocal properties of the singers. Singers build careers by specializing in certain musical styles. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2587, 341 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Singer ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2587, 341 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Singer ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... The New Opera in Oslo, Norway The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Composers are people who write music. ...

To help both composers and singers, voice classification systems evolved, of which there are now many systems. How loud or how fast a singer can sing can be taken into account, while some systems include non-musical characteristics like what a singer looks like, how well a singer acts (crucial in opera), or how funny a singer can be. In Germany, opera houses use a complex sorting procedure, called the fach system, that considers all these elements. The German Fach (pl. ...

Classifying singers by range, weight of voice and gender is the most common method. But even using these guidelines, there are still many categories. Some common classifications are discussed in the vocal weight and fach articles. In music, the range of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. ... Gender often refers to the distinctions between males and females in common usage. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The German Fach (pl. ...

Refer voice range box at the above right, other than those, there are other designations, including soubrette, heldentenor, coloratura, and basso buffo. There are even categories for men capable of singing in the female range. This type of voice is rare, but still used in opera. In Baroque music, many roles were written for castratos, male singers who were castrated as boys to prevent their voices from changing. Today, with training, men can still sing these roles. The sort of singers are called Countertenors for Castrato Alto roles and Sopranists (or "Sopranistas") for Castrato Soprano roles. Soubrette is a term to describe a leggiero soprano in classical music. ... In music, a tenor is a male singer with a high voice (although not as high as a countertenor). ... Coloratura is an old word meaning colouring. ... A basso (or bass) is a male singer who sings in the lowest vocal range of the human voice. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ... A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. ... A countertenor is an adult male who sings in an alto or soprano range, often through use of falsetto. ... A sopranist is a male singer who sings in the soprano vocal range. ...

Singers may also be classified according to the style of music they sing, such as soul singers or carnatic vocalists. A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...

References

1. ^ Page 26, Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides - Voice, Edited by Sir Keith Falkner, ISBN 0-356-09099-X

Yehudi Menuhin album cover Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was a Jewish-born, American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom and eventually became a British citizen. ...

See also

• Singing
• Humming
• Rapping
• Death growl
• Singer-songwriter
• Category:Singers