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Extended vocal technique
Vocalists are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative singing techniques have been used extensively in the 20th century, especially in art song and opera. Particularly famous examples of extended vocal technique can be found in the music of Luciano Berio, John Cage, George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Demetrio Stratos, Meredith Monk, Giacinto Scelsi, Arnold Schoenberg, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tim Foust, Avi Kaplan, and Trevor Wishart.
Spoken text is frequently employed. The Italian term "parlato" has a similar meaning.
Sprechgesang is a combination singing and speaking. It is usually heavily associated with Arnold Schoenberg (particularly his Pierrot Lunaire which uses sprechgesang for its entire duration) and the Second Viennese School. Schoenberg notated sprechgesang by placing a small cross through the stem of a note which indicates approximate pitch. In more modern music “sprechgesang” is frequently simply written over a passage of music.
Singing is produced while a singer is inhaling. It is used in experimental contemporary classical compositions, such as in the 2006 chamber opera Ursularia by Nicholas DeMaison, for its ability to produce a variety of extreme high and low pitches impossible to create in typical exhaled vocals. In popular music styles, ingressive singing can be combined with vocal distortion techniques for extreme metal vocals like death metal growls. In beatboxing, it is used to create certain percussion sounds (like the "inward K snare"). A careful mixture of ingressive and egressive sounds allows a beatboxer to sustain a rhythmic phrase indefinitely without needing to pause for breath.
A vocal technique allowing the singer to sing notes higher than their modal vocal range.
A "frying"-type sound may be produced by means of the glottis. This technique has been frequently used by Meredith Monk.
Yodelling is performed by rapidly alternating between a singer's chest and head voice.
A long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high-pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back-and-forth movement of the tongue and the uvula. Ululation is practiced in certain styles of singing, as well as in communal ritual events, used to express strong emotion.
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Extended vocal technique
Vocalists are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative singing techniques have been used extensively in the 20th century, especially in art song and opera. Particularly famous examples of extended vocal technique can be found in the music of Luciano Berio, John Cage, George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Demetrio Stratos, Meredith Monk, Giacinto Scelsi, Arnold Schoenberg, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tim Foust, Avi Kaplan, and Trevor Wishart.
Spoken text is frequently employed. The Italian term "parlato" has a similar meaning.
Sprechgesang is a combination singing and speaking. It is usually heavily associated with Arnold Schoenberg (particularly his Pierrot Lunaire which uses sprechgesang for its entire duration) and the Second Viennese School. Schoenberg notated sprechgesang by placing a small cross through the stem of a note which indicates approximate pitch. In more modern music “sprechgesang” is frequently simply written over a passage of music.
Singing is produced while a singer is inhaling. It is used in experimental contemporary classical compositions, such as in the 2006 chamber opera Ursularia by Nicholas DeMaison, for its ability to produce a variety of extreme high and low pitches impossible to create in typical exhaled vocals. In popular music styles, ingressive singing can be combined with vocal distortion techniques for extreme metal vocals like death metal growls. In beatboxing, it is used to create certain percussion sounds (like the "inward K snare"). A careful mixture of ingressive and egressive sounds allows a beatboxer to sustain a rhythmic phrase indefinitely without needing to pause for breath.
A vocal technique allowing the singer to sing notes higher than their modal vocal range.
A "frying"-type sound may be produced by means of the glottis. This technique has been frequently used by Meredith Monk.
Yodelling is performed by rapidly alternating between a singer's chest and head voice.
A long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high-pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back-and-forth movement of the tongue and the uvula. Ululation is practiced in certain styles of singing, as well as in communal ritual events, used to express strong emotion.