Register (music)

See also: Register

In the Western music, the word register generally indicates the total extent of a instrument or a voice, since the serious note more until the high note more . It is thus about a Synonyme with the word Ambitus. In certain circumstances, it can however cover different directions.

Voice

The register indicates part of the total extent of a voice having the same characteristics of sonority and requiring the same technique. Since the serious towards acute the, one distinguishes mainly three registers.

  • the serious register is produced by the normal contraction of the vocal cords: it is called Chest voice or register of chest . This one is usually used by the male-intonated voices, Ténor, Baryton and low; and sometimes, by the feminine voices, for some serious notes, outgoing of the usual Tessiture.

  • the acute register is produced by preventing the normal contraction of the vocal cords: it is called Fausset or Falsetto (for the men), and voice of head for the women. This register is usually used by the feminine voices, Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Contralto; and, for a category of male-intonated voice called Contreténor.

  • the intermediate register, called mixed Voice or mixed register , makes it possible to avoid making hear the rupture between the two extreme registers (the “passage”). The mixed register is especially used by a type of light tenor with the particularly high voice, called High-against.

Organology

Wood and coppers

With regard to the wood and the coppers, the word register has a direction connected with that which it revêt in the field of the voices. This term thus indicates also part of the total extent of a instrument having the same characteristics of sonority and requiring the same technique. Usually, since the serious towards acute the, one distinguishes: the register engraves, the register of the medium, the acute register, and sometimes, the register Suraigu.

Keyboards

See also: Registration (organ), Register (keyboard)

On certain instruments with keyboard, such as the Organ or the Harpsichord, the word register indicates a choice of stamp, obtained by the use of a clean mechanism with this instrument (synonymous with play).

See too

  • Register of the organ
  • List of the organ stops

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