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This has happened in the teeth of some very vocal opposition, mine included.
There's the weary, gravelly vocal style they share, the theatrical, elegantly sleazy wordplay and, of course, the ears.
Chords shift like tectonic plates in a rugby scrum and Todd remains calm, focused and deals in a very dry, biting, intoned vocal delivery.
The teeter-tottering vocal hypnotizes as the pitch leaps up and down in a slow, pastoral drawl.
The scary thing about these vocal tracks is how negligibly different their musical backing is from the infinitely more enjoyable instrumentals.
Her band of musicians also keep things rolling with a pleasant pop-soul vocal backing and occasionally fresh drum patterns.
The sheer multitude of vocal tones that a gifted mimic like Roth is able to conjure up is extraordinary.
With its trademark big kicks, stabby riffs and chopped-up vocal sound all present, this remix certainly does the damage on the dancefloor.
When I had the temerity to refer to this survey in a newspaper column, the wrath of a very substantial and vocal lobby came down upon my head.
His mastery of vocal manipulation allowed him to pitch his voice like a frail old man from Texas.
He was to admit in later life that he had been somewhat mannered in his vocal style, at the expense of his physical presence.
Her tantalising lines are delivered with as many vocal gymnastics as Jeff Buckley but she never sounds mannered or over the top.
They rejuvenate their age-old vocal style by breathing new life into some time-worn standards.
Liszt transcribed Beethoven's symphonies, as well as a myriad other vocal and instrumental works, for piano.
The words were pressed from vocal cords unused to them, shaped by lips that were more inclined to some other form of speech.
The political marriage between the Tories and Alliance is all but complete, but there is still a vocal contingent that objects to the nuptials.
His supreme gift for melody is readily apparent in his keyboard works, just on a smaller scale than found in his orchestral and vocal works.
Singers will get the chance to sing in harmony, in single line melodies, in rounds and to experiment with varied vocal textures.
By rapidly opening and closing its beak a bird can alter the damping characteristics of the vocal tract.
Josquin was a singer by profession, and virtually all his music is vocal in conception.
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The jig was a popular kind of dancing performed to the music of a pipe or tabor that often had a vocal accompaniment.
Family friend and singer Neil Scott has helped Rebecca on her way to stardom, giving her vocal coaching and moral support.
Her voice, tripled or sextupled in harmony, was the vocal version of his slide-guitar style.
As vocal as the fans were, and as hard as they tried to liven the atmosphere, the mood at times was quite mundane.
Patients may be unaware of vocal tics, but family members may find the incessant noises grating.
Several pairs of tyrant flycatcher species have been recognized based, at least in part, on vocal differences.
Studies show that it is more effective in reducing motor tics than reducing vocal tics.
To see him pull off all the blips, bleeps, loops, and hisses using only his vocal cords is definitely something special.
Phew again delivers a well-worn vocal here, but instead of being a vulnerable ballad, the song reaches near-epic heights of post-rock torch song.
What I was about to do would require a lot of energy, stamina, and vocal power.
This was a label that dominated musically as well as attracting and nurturing top-shelf vocal talent.
This instrument has traditionally been associated with the kathak dance and the vocal styles of thumri, dadra and kheyal.
For the 8-tracks, Botnick had two mics out in the hall, two vocal mics, two guitar mics, a bass mic and a drum track.
The sweetness of the vocal harmonies is tempered by the rawness of the guitar and the unremitting monotony of the drum patterns.
It is light classical in nature and thus often sung in the vocal genre of thumri.
One of the most engaging tracks is Mama, with its compelling thumb piano line, high life guitar, and mesmerising vocal chants.
The thrushes, a family that includes the American robin and the Eastern bluebird, are known for their vocal skill.
This self-confidence lies behind his avid and vocal support of spiritualism in the last 20 years of his life.
Bolli's vocal trick is to stand in another room yowling as if in her death throes.
Before the vocal glory of Callas and Sutherland, sopranos with lighter timbres often sang bel canto roles.
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In its vocal sections, Kancheli's debt to medieval monophony is clear, however tempered with modernism.
You will need some mixing software, turntables, and lots of imagination and an a cappella vocal track.
His operas include several monodramas, and he has also written a considerable quantity of chamber and vocal music.
I mostly love the music, the jangly guitar intro and the cool bassline and the vocal melody.
Among the different vocal and instrumental styles that characterise the medieval period, monody plays an essential part.
His secular vocal music, monodic and polyphonic, is mainly contained in five volumes of Musiche, and ten volumes of madrigals and villanellas.
The attractive part of the vocal delivery is the tone, the snotty sneer with which nearly every line is delivered.
Cancer of the throat can involve malignant tumors on the vocal cords, voice box, or other areas of the throat.
The bassist and drummer share lead vocal duties and both have good vocal abilities.
He is able to assay the tricky transition from youthful to mature Hughes with body language and vocal modulation.
In her hands, or vocal cords, this song is out-and-out heartbreak written in the boldest of bold type.
This is paired with Missy's wantonly lascivious delivery and interplay with her vocal partners.
Standard beats, smooth keyboards synthesized horns and other instruments, and one repeating vocal sample is the blueprint here.
They're textbooks on how strings, horns, brass, rhythm and vocal should be laid down.
The day was run by two teachers, Rodney and Brian, and we began in the morning with physical and vocal warm up.
And the way it is perfected is, the singers do warm-ups, which are vocal training, every day.
She has all the timing, modulations, implications, and vocal range in the world, and then that extra something I can only call soul.
Strings swirl, melodies are caressed by her velvety vocal quaver, and the songs are simple in their expression of the feel-good sentiment.
He is an accompanist, songwriter and composer who works with choirs, vocal and ensembles.
Elsewhere the vocal strength is wasted on dull content and music which has had much of the soul digitally removed from it.
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The move has provoked accusations that Executive ministers are acting to silence a vocal critic.
This is a vocal pop band, not an acid rock band, and there's only so many weird things you can do with group harmonies.
But these percussive jitters are anchored by MIA's engaging, half-rapped, half-chanted vocal melodies.
The swooping vocal modulations suggest North Africa, while a violin hints at East European klezmer.
The voice box grows in size and the vocal cords lengthen, causing the voice to deepen and the Adam's apple to become more obvious.
With unparalleled vocal skills and musical imagination, Khaled was the man who took Algerian rai music into the mainstream.
And the marchers, the ralliers, have been very vocal in their support of the president.
What's with every current hip hop song on the radio having a pitched up soul vocal sample on it?
She has a good vocal range, but her voice lacks passion and has a nasal quality that grates after a while.
He does a superb job of showing off his vocal range as well as the softer side of his voice.
For the most part, the vocal ranges are narrow and would be suitable for all voice parts.
Wilkes' trademark vocal sound is a dry megaphone rasp, and he alternates it with savage harmonica outbursts.
Her vocal skills are strong and sweet, her voice raspy and high, but full of passion.
Resident orcas are highly vocal and communicate with a learned repertoire of clicks, whistles and squeals.
While Pataki rattled on endlessly about his shampoo, Whitman became very vocal about missing The Weekly Standard.
Some are afraid of retaliation because they have been vocal proponents of peace.
Her symptoms persisted despite employment of hypnotic imagery for general relaxation, as well as specific imagery to relax her vocal cords.
The rest blends together into an indistinct mass of guitar and vocal shredding.
A fine pianist and singularly persuasive interpreter of his own music, Head was famous for his one-man recitals of his vocal music.
After a dramatic recitative which Genaux sings with some interesting vocal color, the aria is as light and as refreshing as a cool breeze.
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For half a century Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau withered any rival in vocal range with an austere glare and an iron grip on recording opportunities.
The Wombles were brought to life by stop-motion animation and the vocal talents of narrator Bernard Cribbins.
The 40-piece band, led by flight lieutenant John Buckley RAAF, includes woodwind, brass, percussion and vocal ensembles.
The groups which performed include strings, woodwind and brass musicians and performances were also be given by some vocal soloists.
Specialty vocal calls imitate sounds that dominant gobblers make, such as spitting, drumming and fighting purrs.
Nevertheless, her plain delivery stripped of vocal runs, trills and decorations can make her long baroque arias sound staid and matronly.
Handelian arias were either brilliant vocal displays or sustained sublime showstoppers.
Dance troupes, vocal and instrumental performers, fashion designers and other artists have also been invited to take part.
This is the album's best track, a bulging-vein screecher whose vocal parts spit more than they sing.
Those who are extremely vocal about Kurdish language rights do not fare so well, and sometimes face arrest.
Again, we'll have our vocal minority shouting the odds about the disrespect accorded to African leaders.
Stoll is a supple balladeer whose raw vocal wanderings set against harmonic guitar-strummings make great theme music for your introspective mood.
General manager of Rodney Bay Marina, Cuthbert Didier, is the leading vocal advocate when it comes to yachting in St Lucia.
There are a few that have vocal hooks, some get awesomely chaotic and some are forlorn ballads.
The most accurate means of detecting MAS is by examining the vocal cords with a laryngoscope.
The laryngoscope is used again to confirm vocal cord medialization while the patient phonates.
Finally, tension in the shoulders, neck and upper back often make people over-work their vocal muscles.
Astounding again are Hampson's vocal options displayed here, from ordinary chest voice to virtuous trills.
More than half of Family Tree is made up of recent, minimally orchestrated vocal performances, and most of them are reprised b-sides.
The real challenge, however, came while re-recording the tracks in the studio, most notably the vocal tracks.
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Turning her head upward, her jaw almost dropped, her mouth almost went lax, and she almost lost her vocal cords.
After a year of sustained eyebrow raising and boomerang pints, they now no longer try my patience or my vocal chords.
All I have to do when writing a vocal track is bear in mind that the lead instrument will be the voice.
There's plenty of instrumental colour, jolly balafon playing, flute and vocal chorus.
Breathing problems are considered to be those that affect the respiratory system below the vocal cords.
The words of the responsorial psalm fit very comfortably with the vocal ethos of blues.
The 62-year-old actress is resting her vocal chords after a virus and was unable to comment.
Also in tribute to Baptista, Kroodsma asked vocal researchers globally to pose the question in avian bioacoustics they would most like answered.
You'll have to untangle a lot of overly complicated chord changes and annoyingly high-pitched vocal turns to find anything else worth savoring.
Although Britain has a vocal anti-abortion lobby opposed to embryo research, it is very much in the minority.
Two consecutive tribrachs cannot be uttered with propriety without an intervening vocal pause.
It was a sonic stew of vocal stylings, mixed with an aural richness and adventurousness.
But while he shares some of Young's tremulous vocal ability, this is someone with a unique perspective on the America terrain.
No dissent is tolerated and concerned citizens who are vocal are considered special interest groups.
A simple accompaniment serves as a baseline from which a limpid melody explodes into a dizzy display of vocal pyrotechnics.
This ranks among the most spectacular music of its age, with its thrilling textures and virtuoso vocal lines.
There's some interesting vocal lines throughout, though nothing instantly memorable.
Their style is melodic driving rock, with textured guitars and strong vocal harmony lines.
The crowd was vocal in its disapproval, responding with hoots, catcalls and a hail of empty bottles, apple cores and other missiles.
Her appoggiaturas and tuning are excellent, though the vocal assurance is not always quite there.
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His lyrical talents are no less impressive than his mood swings, showing variation in meter, tempo and vocal tone.
I start getting togged up at 6.50 pm, but there's a vocal warm-up at 6.30 pm and I'm happy to be missing out on that!
Many were the instruments and singers interchanging scores and vocal lines during the Baroque Era.
Her vocal delivery is straightforward and unadorned, thereby drawing the listener's ear to the content of the lyrics.
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.
Sustained lines for the soprano, joined by a boy treble kept from his bed for five minutes' worth of work, provide vocal variety.
He became the vocal arranger for those cheerfully overwrought cuts, which were among the most difficult to record.
The most common presenting symptoms were vocal roughness, vocal fatigue, and decreased vocal endurance.
Arytenoid adduction and rotation is another technique that seeks to medialize the vocal process of the paralyzed arytenoid cartilage.
The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register.
With its beefed-up beat and Monch's vocal skills, the song is now a bonafide A-side track.
Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies.
He confidently asserts that the tapes are not faked, and that the vocal range is too broad to be made by a human.
Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
Mating may thus be assortative as females mate selectively with males of the same vocal background, discouraging gene migration.
For some reason, this time around, the lowlights include the rearrangement of almost every vocal track.
Louis Armstrong was vocal about his dislike of the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
With a throng of guests adding lush orchestration to most of the tracks, it is Campbell's understated wispy vocal that ties the tunes together.
If you're a fan of Les Claypool and his odd lyrical content and vocal styling, as well as great song writing, you will need to own this album.
The 1990s have seen rock bands like Sublime and Limp Bizkit incorporate hip hop's lingo, vocal style, and the art of sampling into their music.
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His dramatic vocal colorations leave no one in doubt that as Emperor of the Tartars he can command an army.
Our erstwhile ska hardliners are now essentially a four-piece, with saxist Lorraine front and centre handling vocal duty.
He has simply got on with the job and his district have built a firm and vocal support base backed by intelligent marketing.
A similar explanation has been proposed for other animal mimics that show evidence of vocal learning.
The truculence this combination produces in some highly vocal members of the community is hardly attractive to private-sector employers, thus completing a vicious circle.
Hart belts out the Sinatra standards, but while his vocal impersonation is impressive, his barnet is so distressing it often looks like there's a second microphone on screen.
The multivocal voice is an aestethic concept that fosters the integrative approach to contemporary vocal performance practices that do not exclude one or the other of the above mentioned voice paradigms.
Temkey's commanding vocal declamation and warm, high lying, distinctively French baritonal sound recall Francis Poulenc's collaborator and frequent interpreter Pierre Bernac.
Angelo believes that only a small vocal portion of the right truly has issues with gays.
With her vocal range embracing mbaqanga, kwela, township jive and American jazz through ballads to gospel, she will add Afro-international zest to the tribute concerts.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired a considerable number of vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from opera arias to character pieces for piano.
The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove.
Undeniably influenced by her Portugese roots and a range of folk and world music, the diversity of instruments and vocal styles on this album is breathtaking.
Many of the songs are laced with clever hip hop asides and contain every conceivable type of bleep, scratch and vocal distortion known to nu-metal man.
The children's mother, Lisa, an accomplished lyric soprano with a degree in vocal music, provided a musically nurturing environment for the siblings to study piano.
By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
The differential diagnosis of tracheomalacia includes laryngomalacia, subglottic stenosis, congenital cysts, vocal cord paralysis, and hypocalcemic tetany.
Some eight years down the road, it is important that vocal sectional interests do not blind the community to reforms that are in the public interest.
We all know the vocal scoops and the arpeggiated guitar lines by heart.
Every sound fits appropriately within the game's digital world, with many vocal utterances seemingly processed by filters to lend them a menacing or machine-like tone.
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Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Zhenya, a hair salon owner, who had been a vocal supporter of the protests, now distanced himself from the activists.
Not only was his acting nuanced and committed, but his vocal command of the notes, some admittedly transposed down for comfort, was also complete.
The vocal harmonies have been completely phased out, and to some extent, the vocals themselves are of tertiary importance outside of a simple rhythmic device.
Getting them to be serious for a minute or two, they reveal that a sheer amount of takes were required for Large Pro to be happy with his vocal performance.
He commanded bright-toned singing from his excellent chamber vocal group.
Straightbladed paediatric laryngoscopes are designed to be inserted beyond the epiglottis, which is then lifted by the tip of the blade to expose the vocal cords.
The harsh, methodical thrash of '80s-style death-metal, and annoying and heavy vocal stylings, do nothing to save this album from total terribleness.
Bringing together and shaping a disparate collection of vocal and musical samples he creates a rich cultural portrait that succeeds both conceptually and aesthetically.
Late one night, we were working on punching in a vocal section of a song, and after the first take, I let the tape machine roll a bit further into the song.
A vocal contingent of surf writers consider slater the greatest athlete of all time.
Welles uses his own intimate vocal delivery, and an atmospheric soundscape, to prepare us for a final zinger that is both eerie and contemplative.
Her transpierced vocal chords emitted a slight squeak as her mind registered the fact that she was immovably entangled and impaled more than twenty times.
Jessen was named a Mormon bishop, but the appointment was met with vocal protests.
If the crowd started to audibly sing one of his songs, he would lose track of the vocal and launch into screams of encouragement.
With estimable discipline, Smith's inquiry anatomizes vocal volume and pitch, yet rhythm receives scant attention and, not surprisingly, scrutiny of poetic meter is wanting.
He wanted his lead performers to have a great vocal presence.
Not a belter in the vocal department, she manages to retain a charming fragility while knowing enough to be able to inject humour and colour where its needed.
I do vocal exercises and on my own I can have a deep resonant voice.
Britain's rainbow nation is more diverse than ever, thanks to the combination of a tolerant populace, vocal gay community and forward-thinking government.
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Topography might be important in training the vocal skills of a second language or the motor skills of a repair technician who needs to use a torque wrench.
As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes.
And with a history of elections marred by rigging, voters were particularly sensitive and vocal about hints of irregularities.
I ended up developing a blister on one of my vocal cords, so that kinda sucked.
Ideally, one might wish for translations to the texts of the vocal examples and a few more musical scores for the CDs, so that one could follow more of the points being made.
The opening song places keening flutes and whispered vocal over an insistent pulse of clay drums and thumb pianos, punctuated by occasional bursts of talking drum.
That jazzy vocal style is just supposed to make you feel chilled.
So, why are some vocal lesbigay activists so opposed to school choice?
Unless you've never stopped, you'll have to rediscover this voice to properly extend your range, stop straining your vocal chords and singing out of key.
The music is cool, full and rich, upbeat pop with nice vocal harmonies.
In their signature stabby synth, euro-friendly vocal format, Swedish House Mafia's Until Now is structured almost identically to their recent main stage sets.
Short and stylistically different than much of the rest of the album, it features Hayden in top vocal form, gently wrapping his words around a meandering piano melody.
After the move from the company, he was a pillar of support following the death of Wyclef's father two years ago, and a strong influence on the vocal aspect of his music.
Democrats chastised me for going against the party, but the most vocal detractors were my biggest supporters.
The fans seemed vocal for both bands at this particular show, but with little more than a small ripple of movement every now and then, this night left much to be desired.
The public is generally acquiescent on matters like this and the right, the most vocal voice in the country's politics, was able to drown out any voices of dissent.
Nevertheless, visual debits were more than balanced out by vocal credits.
She had a tense encounter with a small but vocal group of protesters.
Decreased muscle tension on the vocal cords produces lower pitch sounds.
The Five Songs Without Words that follow were later transcribed for violin and piano and in that guise they have been heard far more often than in vocal form.
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Joseph and Adrian sing the third and fifth lines whilst the remaining four lines are instrumental, creating instrumental ritornelli around the vocal lines.
Schuchat also commented on celebrities like Jenny McCarthy and Kristin Cavallari who have been vocal in their vaccine skepticism.
Synth swells and distorted electric guitar combined with punchy kick drums frame a sumptuous female vocal loop to create one of THE tunes of the year so far.
By then I had been studying vocal music and the tabla for 8-9 years.
Terfel roars out his righteous rage and coos his ludicrous love songs with equal aplomb, making the formidable vocal feats seem almost ridiculously easy.
I dig 'em, but I betcha I'd be digging them a lot less this week had I been subjected to a full hour of that vocal harmonizing gimmick they always do.
Central to all music from Syria and Arab countries are monophony and heterophony, vocal flourishes, subtle intonation, rich improvisation, and the Arab scales.
I am vocal on the pitch but have never been a ranter and raver off it.
In fact, she is quite convincing throughout and possesses one of those rare mezzo voices that never turn thick or heavy and always maintain a vocal beauty.
Still adhering to hypnotic vocal melodies and traditional string arrangements, it has modernized Nordic roots music and projected it into an impressionistic future soundscape.
She was an actress with an opera singer's voice and vocal skills, which enabled her to lift her performances out of the banal into the realms of realism.
Her 2013 release Lua Ya offers a beguiling type of Korean ambient vocal music, unlike anything else I heard during the year.
These vocal roulades evoke the little lad's vacancy as he travels through the night, knowing nothing of his destiny nor even knowing that he doesn't know!
His unprocessed singing is so good, it makes one wonder why he bothers using a tool designed to mask poor vocal work.
Spoken language makes use of sound carried on out-breathed air from the lungs, which is modulated by articulators to produce the vocal repertoire of a natural language.
So, let's not focus on the fact that her cover outfit makes her look like she's wearing a merkin or that her piercings get more attention than her vocal abilities.
Each has a physical and and vocal signature, constructed with the kind of care that makes the process seems artless, and puts them on in rapid and seamless succession.
Treatment may involve having the vocal nodules removed by microsurgery.
The savage blankness of the instrumentals is tempered by vocal tracks that ascend like beacons, their brightness amplified by the murky distances between them.
The local government was strongly supportive of the fugitive president and vocal in its criticism of the Maidan.
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The vocal lines, tailored to the soprano voice of Heidi Grant Murphy, are characterized by wide pitch fluctuations, melismas, and extrapolated sounds.
Her seminal musical works use what are called extended vocal techniques, such as overtone and throat singing, yodeling, keening, percussive sounds, and micro-tonality.
From her 1995 Beijing address to her vocal advocacy for contraception, watch our mashup of her best.
As talented vocal impressionists, they spoofed many identifiable targets, including rambling elder Jamaican characters, rap artists and smooth-talking Lotharios.
Fleming laments that existing surveys and studies have documented something about the vocal minority, but almost nothing about the silent majority.
Oddly, the quality of the recording is stellar in contrast to the rest of the album's material, and every vocal tic and nuance is instantly palpable.
Over the last few years, a vocal minority of local residents have raised objections to assignations by gay men in the Square in the middle of the night.
She required two more microdirect laryngoscopies with resection of the recurrent granuloma and injection of a steroid into the vocal folds.
Davies arranged for the vocal score to be published by Curwen in time for the concert at the Queen's Hall on 28 March and began rehearsing it.
His opponents acquired a vocal leader in the Prince of Wales who was estranged from his father, the King.
The Hungarian economist Peter Thomas Bauer has been one of the most vocal of them.
In composing the Savoy operas, Sullivan wrote the vocal lines of the musical numbers first, and these were given to the actors.
Composers of music for musicals often consider the vocal demands of roles with musical theatre performers in mind.
The song used gimmicks such as a vocal stutter to simulate the speech of a mod on amphetamines, and two key changes.
In the 1890s Finnish nationalism based on the Kalevala spread, and Jean Sibelius became famous for his vocal symphony Kullervo.
The Lapsarian controversy has a few vocal proponents on each side today, but overall it does not receive much attention among modern Calvinists.
She afterwards discovered a vocal fold cyst, and had to undergo corrective surgery.
Manson possesses a contralto vocal range, which has been noted for its distinctive qualities as well as her emotive delivery.
Popes Benedict XV, John XXIII and John Paul II were all vocal in their opposition to specific wars.
The Labour party was split on home rule for Wales with a vocal minority opposed.
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He has often courted controversy and publicity through his vocal views on speeding motorists and the legalisation of drugs.
It stabilizes the vocal instrument, thereby providing extended capacity for high notes as well as nonwobbly, audible low notes.
Although the puffins are vocal at their breeding colonies, they are silent at sea.
This harrier tends to be a very vocal bird while it glides over its hunting ground.
The most vocal anticomputer group is the San Francisco Citizens Action Committee.
It had been previously reported he suffered from a benign vocal cord nodule.
This remedy will be found speedily efficious in hoarseness due to excessive action of the vocal cords or resulting from an acute cold.
This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment.
Siegfried Kracauer was to be a particularly vocal critic in the twenties of the shift in perception brought on by the illustrateds.
In recent years, the Commonwealth has been accused of not being vocal enough on its core values.
Dalyell was a vocal opponent of Scottish devolution in the 1979 and 1997 plebiscites.
The manuscript also includes two masses, a motet, an anthem, and other songs and ballads, both vocal and instrumental.
In opera, vocal soloists and choirs perform staged dramatic works with an orchestra providing accompaniment.
Vocal scores drawn from the edition were published by Novello in London, but some scores, such as the vocal score to Samson are incomplete.
Handel wrote Messiah for modest vocal and instrumental forces, with optional settings for many of the individual numbers.
The 1754 performance at the hospital is the first for which full details of the orchestral and vocal forces survive.
They inaugurated a new tradition of brisk, small scale performances, with vocal embellishments by the solo singers.
In each of the major works written in the years after Paris, Delius combined orchestral and vocal forces.
The work is in five movements, with wordless vocal lines for female chorus and solo soprano in the first and last movements.
Stewart, who had been included in the group upon Baldry's insistence, ended up with most of the male vocal parts.
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Instead of having full verses and choruses, he picked out vocal phrases and played them like an instrument, using sampling technology.
This type of vocal treatment is still a key characteristic of the UK garage style.
Nicki Minaj cancelled her appearance at this weekend's festival because of damage to her vocal cords.
These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery.
In Japan, where the popular film tradition integrated silent movie and live vocal performance, talking pictures were slow to take root.
A love song, performed by star Ralph Graves, was recorded, as was a sequence of live vocal effects.
Since then, the Tartan Army have won awards from UEFA for their combination of vocal support, friendly nature and charity work.
Hatton has attracted many fans who were very vocal in their support during fights.
In order to obtain each individual whistle sound, dolphins undergo vocal production learning.
Lacking vocal cords, they produce sounds using six air sacs near their blow hole.
The gifts of prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues, and words of wisdom and knowledge are called the vocal gifts.
Pentecostals look to 1 Corinthians 14 for instructions on the proper use of the spiritual gifts, especially the vocal ones.
The gifts of power are distinct from the vocal gifts in that they do not involve utterance.
I have systematically employed an octavating treble clef for tenor vocal parts.
Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic for The New York Times, was particularly vocal in his praise.
Cooper was supported by a variety of acts, including the vocal percussionist Frank Holder.
Recent studies have found that a large portion of their vocal repertoire is made up of calls produced in repeated sequences.
Northeast Pacific resident groups tend to be much more vocal than transient groups in the same waters.
Antarctic seals are more vocal on land or ice than Arctic seals due to a lack of terrestrial and pagophliic predators like the polar bear.
The Weddell seal has perhaps the most elaborate vocal repertoire with separate sounds for airborne and underwater contexts.
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Sardinia is home to one of the oldest forms of vocal polyphony, generally known as cantu a tenore.
Early mornings are typically better as the birds are more active and vocal making them easier to spot.
Red foxes have a wide vocal range, and produce different sounds spanning five octaves, which grade into each other.
Bats are among the most vocal of mammals and produce calls to attract mates, find roost partners and defend resources.
The sika deer is a highly vocal species, with over 10 individual sounds, ranging from soft whistles to loud screams.
The head joins the body without a noticeable neck and there is no external vocal sac.
Noise also makes species communicate louder, which is called the Lombard vocal response.
Other mammals phonate using vocal folds, as opposed to the vocal cords seen in birds and reptiles.
The movement or tenseness of the vocal folds can result in many sounds such as purring and screaming.
Voicing describes whether the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation of a vowel.
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
Having considered recruiting a singer, the band eventually settled on giving King and Lindup the vocal role.
Suggs' vocal performance changed significantly, and his strong accent from the previous albums had been watered down.
The most vocal proponent of the hybridization hypothesis is Erik Trinkaus of Washington University.
Vowels are those sounds that have no audible friction caused by the narrowing or obstruction of some part of the upper vocal tract.
Consonants are those sounds that have audible friction or closure at some point within the upper vocal tract.
The study of how humans produce and perceive vocal sounds is called phonetics.
Marthinus Steyn, a prominent jurist and politician, and others were vocal in their opposition.
Minister of Finance Xia Yuanji was a vocal opponent to the treasure voyages.
A dynamic member of the Southern African Development Community, Namibia is a vocal advocate for greater regional integration.

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