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{{Short description|Specific term regarding the human voice the definition of which can vary by art medium}}
'''Head voice''' is a term used within [[vocal music]]. The use of this term varies widely within [[vocal pedagogy|vocal pedagogical]] circles and there is currently no one consistent opinion among vocal music professionals in regard to this term. Head voice can be used in relation to the following:
* A particular part of the [[vocal range]] or type of [[vocal register]]
* A [[vocal resonation|vocal resonance]] area
* A specific vocal [[timbre]]<ref name=McKinney>{{cite book
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One prevailing practice within vocal pedagogy is to divide both men and women's voices into three registers. Men's voices are divided into "[[chest register]]", "head register", and "[[falsetto register]]" and women's voices into "[[chest register]]", "[[middle register]]", and "head register". According to this practice, singing in the '''head register''' feels to the singer as if the tone is resonating in their head (rather than primarily in the chest or throat). According to an early 20th-century book written by David Clippinger, all voices have a head register, whether [[Bass (voice type)|bass]] or [[soprano]].<ref name="Headv">{{cite book|last=Clippinger|first=David A.|title=The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156980|publisher=Oliver Ditson Company|year=1917|page= [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156980/page/n28 12]}}[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19493 at Project Gutenberg]</ref>
Clippinger claims that [[male]]s and [[female]]s switch registers at the same absolute pitches. He also states that at about E{{music|flat}} or E above middle C, the tenor passes from what is usually called open to covered tone, but which might better be called from chest to head voice. At the same absolute pitches, the alto or soprano passes from the chest to the middle register. According to Clippinger, there is every reason to believe that the change in the mechanism for male voices into head register is the same as that which occurs in the female voice as it goes into the middle register at the same pitches.<ref name="Headv2">{{cite book|last=Clippinger|first=David A.|title=The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156980|publisher=[[Oliver Ditson Company]]|year=1917|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156980/page/n40 24]}}</ref>
The contemporary [[voice pedagogy|vocal pedagogy]] [[teacher|instructor]] Bill Martin seconds the view that the change from chest voice to head voice occurs at around E<sub>4</sub> in all voices, including the bass, but Martin states that in the coloratura soprano, it is more likely to occur at [[Scientific pitch notation|F<sub>4</sub>]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Martin| first = Bill | title = Pro Secrets Of Heavy Rock Singing| publisher = Sanctuary Publishing| year = 2002| page = 10 | isbn = 1-86074-437-0}}</ref> A recent book by a former teacher at [[Oberlin College Conservatory of Music]] and a [[vocal]] [[pedagogy]] [[teacher]], [[Richard Miller (singer)|Richard Miller]], states that in the "tenore lirico," the higher part of the singing voice above the secondo [[passaggio]] at G<sub>4</sub> extending upwards is referred to as "full voice in head," or ''voce piena in testa'', effectively stating the head register begins at G<sub>4</sub> in the "tenore lirico," not at E<sub>4</sub>.<ref name="Miller">{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Richard|title=Training Tenor Voices|publisher=Schirmer|date=March 1993|pages=3, 4 & 6|isbn =978-0-02-871397-7}}</ref> According to Singing For Dummies, the bass changes from chest voice into middle voice around A<sub>3</sub> or A{{music|flat}}<sub>3</sub> below Middle C and changes into his head voice around D<sub>4</sub> or C{{music|sharp}}<sub>4</sub> above Middle C.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2014.html| title = Identifying the Fab Four of Singing Voices| access-date = 18 February 2007| author = Pamelia S. Phillips| publisher = Wiley Publishing| quote = ''Bass'' is the lowest of the voice types...| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310211923/http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2014.html| archive-date = 10 March 2007| url-status = dead}}</ref>
In the head register (which is above the chest register), some of the bottom end leaves the voice, but it's still, according to Martin, a voice capable of much power.<ref>{{cite book | last = Martin| first = Bill | title = Pro Secrets Of Heavy Rock Singing| publisher = Sanctuary Publishing| year = 2002| page = 11 | isbn = 1-86074-437-0}}</ref>
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There are seven parts of the human body that act as resonators, and of those seven, the three most effective resonators that help amplify and create the most pleasing sounds are all located in the head: the [[human pharynx|pharynx]], the [[human oral cavity|oral cavity]], and the [[nasal cavity]].<ref name=McKinney />
===Not falsetto===
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