head-tone

Updated: May 15, 2025

Represents what the author has frequently seen, by the use of the laryngoscope, when a soprano is producing a very high head-tone, say C, D, or E in alt. In a singer highly endowed by nature and perfected by long training based on the soundest principles, the action of the muscles of the larynx may reach a degree of perfection only to be compared with that of the eye and ear.

Wesley Mills - Voice Production in Singing and Speaking: Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)