trills
Quavering vocal sounds
Trills are rapid alternations between two adjacent musical notes, a vocal ornament that makes a sound flutter or quiver.
Birds trill; so do opera singers.
The term extends to any similar vibrating sound: the trill of a phone, She spoke with a trill in her voice.
In linguistics, a trill is a consonant produced by vibrating the tongue or uvula, like the rolled R in Spanish.
Singing with quavers
- chirpingHigh repeated animal calls
- tweetingShort online posts
- songbirdMelodious perching avian
- singingVocal music-making
nightingale · canary · lark · thrush · mockingbird · finch · robin · oriole
Oscillating pitch effect
- coloraturaElaborate vocal ornamentation
- sopranoHighest female voice range
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- ariaOperatic solo piece
melisma · bel canto · cadenza · ornament · embellishment · falsetto · tenor · singing
System of written symbols
- mordentRapid neighbor-note embellishment
- turnRotational movement
- grace noteDecorative musical tone
- ornamentThing that beautifies
tremolo · fingering · technique · flute · clarinet · piano · baroque · classical
Of tooth sockets
- uvularOf the throat's pendant
- rolledRotated or turned over
- consonantIn agreement with
- articulationClear vocal expression
tongue · pronunciation · Spanish · Scottish · Italian · phoneme · linguistic · speech
warbling
Singing with quavers
singing · nightingale · canary · lark · thrush · mockingbird · finch · robin · oriole · blackbird
vibrato
Oscillating pitch effect
- coloraturaElaborate vocal ornamentation
- sopranoHighest female voice range
- operaTheatrical art combining song
aria · melisma · bel canto · cadenza · ornament · embellishment · falsetto · tenor · singing · flourish
notation
System of written symbols
- mordentRapid neighbor-note embellishment
- turnRotational movement
- grace noteDecorative musical tone
ornament · tremolo · fingering · technique · flute · clarinet · piano · baroque · classical · rapid
alveolar
Of tooth sockets
articulation · tongue · pronunciation · Spanish · Scottish · Italian · phoneme · linguistic · speech · flap
- Baroque Keyboardharpsichord, organ, clavichord, fugue, prelude
- musical exerciseswarm-ups, etudes, scales, finger exercises, major scales
- soundssound, beeps, listen, sounds, hear
- animal soundsbark, meow, woof, moo, roar
- music notationtreble clef, bass clef, clef, clefs, staff
- musical notationforte, score, piano, sheet music, notation