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Etymology 1 vb. (standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling lang=en vocalize) Etymology 2
n. A vocal exercise performed by singing one or more vowels without actually forming any words.
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Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed and published in 1915 as the last of his "Fourteen Songs", Op. 34. Written for high voice ( soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, but is sung using any one vowel (of the singer's choosing). It was dedicated to soprano Antonina Nezhdanova.
A vocalise is a vocal exercise without words. Often used to develop flexibility and control of pitch and tone.
Vocalise may also refer to:
- Adiemus V: Vocalise, a 2003 classical album
- "Vocalise" (Rachmaninoff), a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise is a composition for soprano, electronics, and orchestra by the American composer John Corigliano. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur with financial contributions from the Francis Goelet Fund. It was given its world premiere by the soprano Sylvia McNair and the New York Philharmonic under Masur at Avery Fisher Hall on November 11, 1999. The piece is dedicated to Sylvia McNair.
Usage examples of "vocalise".
Alvar rode back to ensure some form of order, Anna, lutar held ready, ran through a vocalise, while idly looking toward Synfal.
Anna coughed, found her second water bottle, and swallowed a little before replacing it, dismounting, and beginning a vocalise.
Nor did it break off, because as other voices began to weave, over that deep and continuing line, a series of vocalises and melismas, it—telluric—continued to dominate and did not cease for the whole time that it took a speaker to repeat twelve “Ave Maria”s in a slow and cadenced voice.
Shochil drifted to the side of the First Metacetacean, and vocalised, hot EM flashing from her dipping snout.
He vocalised with bursts of coherent sound that would have emerged from the Shell, if it had still been there, calling his wife, his friends, anyone that would hear.
The sorceress ran through the two sets of vocalises with the lutar, then brought out the scrap of paper with the words and notation for the spell.
Her voice didn't feel clear until she'd run through four vocalises, and she tried to ignore the impatience she felt was building around her.
Anna rode and kept doing vocalises, half aware that they were passing through bean fields and fields with sprouts too low for her to identify.
Besides, after humming and vocalising the "Battle Hymn" six times, she had a headache, and there wasn't any equivalent of aspirin or ibuprofen, unless she wanted to chew willow bark, and that cure was probably worse than her headache.
He took a deep breath, and was about to modulate the venting, vocalising meaningfully, when a ferocious wall of air knocked him backwards out of his chair, denying him the chance.
The discordant vocalising of the drunk and disorderly in the next cell.