Singing

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stage work that combines songs, music, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance

thumb|A person singing karaoke in Hong Kong ("Run Away from Home" by Janice Vidal) is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.

group or solo singing without instrumental sound

thumb|upright=1.35|The Minstrels of Beverley. Woodcut of 16th-century English musicians. Left to right: pipe and tabor, fiddle, windcap instrument, lute, and shawm. A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. The term originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer who sang songs and played musical instruments.

chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, a cathedral or monastery

In classical music, arioso (; also aria parlante ) is a category of solo vocal piece, usually occurring in an opera or oratorio, falling somewhere between recitative and aria in style. Literally, arioso means airy. The term arose in the 16th century along with the aforementioned styles and monody. It is commonly confused with recitativo accompagnato.

Repertory or repertoire () is the list or set of works a person or company is accustomed to performing. Whether the English or French spelling is used has no bearing, but it was the French word, with an accent on the first e, , that first took hold, in 1847, derived from the late Latin word repertorium. The readiness or preparedness of persons or companies to perform certain works gives rise to an identifiable "standard repertory" in theatre, ballet, opera, choral music, chamber music, guitar recitals, piano recitals, organ recitals, orchestral music and indeed all other "performing arts" form

singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists

thumb|Hans Sachs, leader of a famous 16th-century Meistersinger school in Nuremberg A '''''' (German for "master singer") was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th to 16th centuries. The Meistersingers were drawn from middle class males for the most part.

In music, tessitura ( , , ; ; ) is the most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer (or, less frequently, musical instrument). It is the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding (or characteristic) timbre. This broad definition is often interpreted to refer specifically to the pitch range that most frequently occurs within a given part of a musical piece. Hence, in musical notation, tessitura is the ambitus, or a narrower part of it, in which that particular vocal (or less often instrumental) part lies—whether high or low, etc.

matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements to an audio recording

measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate

member of a band who sings the main solo vocal portions of a song

Vietnamese folk music with alternating female and male singers

the ability to identify a given musical interval between two notes

range of tones a certain voice type can reliably produce.

study of the art and science of voice instruction for singing, particularly opera

process used to teach aural recognition of musical elements, like pitch or melody

A sing-along is an event of singing in unison at school assemblies, gatherings or parties; common genres are folk songs, pop songs, hymns and drinking songs.

Cheironomy or chironomy is a form of music conducting, typically with choral music and choral groups (choirs), where the use of hand gestures directs musical performance. In the modern artform, conductors tend to hoist batons for indicating melodic curves and ornaments.

exercises to prepare the voice for use

person who helps opera singers prepare for a performance

thumb|right|270px|Pasindhen performance A pasindhèn () (informally ) is an Indonesian female solo singer who sings with a gamelan. They may perform in dance, wayang or klenèngan (pure music or "concert") performances.

singing in sign language

strength of speaking or singing whereby the voice is used loudly and clearly

social phenomenon

Melodeclamation (from Greek “melos” = song, and Latin “declamatio” = declamation) was a chiefly 19th century practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music. It is also described as "a type of rhythmic vocal writing that bears a resemblance to Sprechstimme."

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