vocal performance

collocation in English

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vocal
adjective
uk
/ˈvəʊ.kəl/
us
/ˈvoʊ.kəl/
relating to or produced by the voice, either in singing ...
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performance
noun
uk
/pəˈfɔː.məns/
us
/pɚˈfɔːr.məns/
how well a person, machine, etc. does a piece of work or ...
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When the microphone was introduced to livevocalperformancein the 1930s, the audience knew that crooning was 'quiet' and intimate even if (through the loudspeaker) it was loud.
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Second, his ballad disrupts the very fabric of the musical scene, introducing a new tonal area, an unconventional style ofvocalperformanceand a series of disruptive sonorities.
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It has been said to be, by both technique and emotion, avocalperformancethat remains unparalleled by his contemporaries.
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Distortion devices also developed into vocal enhancers, effects units that electronically enhance avocalperformance, including adding "air" (noise or distortion, or both).
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Many reviewers praised the deep meaning of the song and hervocalperformance.
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This interest is reflected in her electroacoustic music as most of her pieces in this genre utilisevocalperformance.
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Further, quantitative measures ofvocalperformance(proportion of usage of well-formed syllables and vowel-like sounds) showed additional similarities between monolingual and bilingual infants.
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Accordingly, the first question my dissertation asks is whethervocalperformanceart can truly be considered a new tradition originated by women.
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I include a brief historical overview of howvocalperformanceart developed and discuss its technological evolution from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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We see, however, that there are more women than men invocalperformanceart.
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In most respects, my intention in this article is the introduction of a genre,vocalperformanceart, which emerged in the early 1970s.
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But the teacher in this case study does not use the computer to model thevocalperformance.
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In this article, these considerations and techniques are used to focus on the electroacoustic aspects ofvocalperformanceart.
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In fact, the suggested term 'vocalperformanceart' simply functions as a construct to help illustrate possible forms of coherence within these developments.
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Very little research has been devoted tovocalperformanceart.
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Her areas of speciality are theatre anthropology andvocalperformance.
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At the time there was much talk about the virtue or otherwise of an 'accurate'vocalperformance.
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Firstly, in including composing and improvising, it represents a radical departure from previous versions of the curriculum which focused onvocalperformanceand musical literacy.
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I have thus tried to outline chronologically the developments ofvocalperformanceart, with a special focus on vocalcomposer-performers who use the electroacoustic voice.
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Bodycoder: a sensor suit andvocalperformancemechanism for real-time performance.
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