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Definition of Chest register
1. Noun. The lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chest Register
Literary usage of Chest register
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Singing: Based on the Principles of the Old Italian Singing by William Shakespeare (1910)
"chest register That series of notes in which the vocal cords are said to vibrate
in their entire length and greatest breadth, and which comprises the lowest ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"The second, or close chest register, next comes into play. This is a register
common to all voices, male and female, and is called by Manuel Garcia, ..."
3. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"The chest-register. This register is the same in the female as in the male. 2.
The lower medium register, generally called the medium. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"The second, or close chest register, next . comes into play. This is a register
common to all voices, male and female, and is called by Manuel Garcia, ..."
5. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"The second form of vibration takes the voice up to F, the usual limit of bass
voices and of the chest register. Above the F the chords are stated to ..."