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‖ falsetto|falˈsɛtto, fɒlˈsɛtəʊ|
Also 8 erron. falsetta.
[It., dim. of falso false. Cf. F. fausset.]
1. A forced voice of a range or register above the natural; the head voice.
1774Walpole Let. Earl Strafford 11 Nov., There is a full melancholy melody in his [Leoni's] voice, though a falsetta. 1799Young in Phil. Trans. XC. 142 The same difference..takes place between the natural voice and the common falsetto. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 419/1 The term basso falsetto has been proposed to designate this voice [a feigned lower voice], but the term lower falsetto is more accurate. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale lvii. 390 ‘To whom do I refer?’ repeated her husband in the highest note of his shrill falsetto. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. 501/2 The male counter-tenor, or alto voice, is almost entirely falsetto.
fig.1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. 1808 VIII. 103 The mock heroick falsetto of stupid tragedy. 1814Scott Drama (1874) 186 All is tuned to the same smooth falsetto of sentiment. 1875Swinburne Ess. & Studies 249 Much of the poem is written throughout in falsetto.
2. One who sings with a falsetto voice.
1789Burney Hist. Mus. IV. 44 You are pleased..to compare the falsetti of former times with the soprani. 1884F. Niecks Dict. Mus. Terms, Falsetto, a singer who sings soprano or alto parts with such a voice.
3. attrib.
1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 276 A sort of falsetto tone in her speech. 1854Bushnan in Circ. Sc. (c 1865) I. 286/2 The falsetto voice has more of a humming character. 1876Foster Phys. iii. vii. (1879) 605 The vocal cords are seen to be wide apart when falsetto notes are uttered. 1889Spectator 9 Nov. 623/2 The last sentence..seems to us to go perilously near making a falsetto conscience out of the antipathies of strait-laced men.
Hence falˈsettist, one who sings in falsetto.
1889Harper's Mag. LXXVII. 73 Soprano falsettists were once common enough in France. 1892Daily News 28 July 6/2 The Italian tenor..is an ‘incomparable falsettist’. |