vibrato
Sign in to saveVibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. Vibrato is typically characterized in terms of two factors: the amount of pitch variation ("extent of vibrato") and the speed with which the pitch is varied ("rate of vibrato").
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25 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- History
- Vibrato and tremolo
- Human perception
- Acoustic basis
- Typical extent of vibrato
- Use in various musical genres
- In classical music
- Vibrato wars
- In Baroque music
- In opera
- In jazz
- In folk
- In pop
- Techniques for producing vibrato
- Singing
- Keyboard instruments
- String instruments
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Auto-vibrato
- Sound examples
- See also
- References
- External links
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. Vibrato is typically characterized in terms of two factors: the amount of pitch variation ("extent of vibrato") and the speed with which the pitch is varied ("rate of vibrato").
In singing, it can occur spontaneously through variations in the larynx. The vibrato of a string instrument and wind instrument is an imitation of that vocal function. Vibrato can also be reproduced mechanically (Leslie speaker) or electronically as an audio effect close to chorus.