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Singer's wavering tone
Answer for the clue "Singer's wavering tone ", 7 letters:
vibrato
Alternative clues for the word vibrato
- Violinist's effect
- Current cup holder to follow victory: change pitch with this?
- Tremolo's kin
- Quavering musical effect
- (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch
- Fiddle not half inspiring difficult child - that's the effect of music!
- Wavy tonal quality overdone by a lot of "American Idol" hopefuls
Word definitions for vibrato in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Characteristically White's opulent bass comes with a pronounced vibrato which tends to get exaggerated on disc. ▪ He whistles with a beautiful, steady vibrato . ▪ In their accompaniments, the strings could have contributed greater ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 characterised in terms of two ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch
Usage examples of vibrato.
But when speaking of the rendition of Handelian arias, he evidently uses the term vibrato in the same sense as Sieber does tremolando.
The reporta loud bang but also like the hard toll of an immense bellrang with such vibrato, I swore that I could feel sympathetic tremors racing through the haversian canals of my bones.
She had no vibrato, catch-as-catch-can volume, and an overfondness for slide.