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ˈhead-voice
One of the higher registers of the voice in singing or speaking; applied both to the second register (that immediately above the chest-voice), and to the third register or falsetto.
1849Dickens Dav. Copp. xxxvi, He has a remarkable head-voice. 1880B. Harte J. Briggs's Love Story ii, Come here! she cried in a small head voice not unlike a bird's twitter. 1896R. J. Lloyd Gen. of Vowels in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XXXI. 239 Here..in singing up the scale, the ‘chest’ voice changes into the ‘head’ voice. |