unsingable
Beyond vocal range
Unsingable describes music or lyrics that are extremely difficult or impossible to sing well.
A melody may be unsingable because of awkward intervals, impossible range, or rhythms that fight against natural vocal phrasing: The composer's angular lines are nearly unsingable.
Lyrics become unsingable when consonant clusters or vowel sequences trip up the voice: That tongue-twister of a bridge is basically unsingable.
Lacking harmonic agreement
- cacophonousHarsh and jarring
- discordantLacking musical agreement
- jarringDisturbingly incongruous
- gratingCrossed bars or harsh
harsh · strident · clashing · inharmonious · screeching · earsplitting · raucous · off-key
dissonant
Lacking harmonic agreement
- cacophonousHarsh and jarring
- discordantLacking musical agreement
- jarringDisturbingly incongruous
grating · harsh · strident · clashing · inharmonious · screeching · earsplitting · raucous · off-key · tuneless
challenging
Hard to accomplish
- impossibleIncapable of occurring
- difficultRequiring much effort
- rangeExtent of variation
octave · breath · control · falsetto · intervals · leaps · tessitura · stamina · technique · chromatic
unsingablesingable
Able to be voiced musically
easy to sing · performable · lyrical · manageable · melodic
sing, sung, sang, singer, singers, singing, sings, singable, song