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ǁ Falsetto. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. ǁ Falsetto Also 8 erron. falsetta. [It., dim. of falso FALSE. Cf. F. fausset.]

1   1.  A forced voice of a range or register above the natural; the head voice.

2 1774.  Walpole, Let. Earl Strafford, 11 Nov. There is a full melancholy melody in his [Leoni’s] voice, though a falsetta.

3 1799.  Young, in Phil. Trans., XC. 142. The same difference … takes place between the natural voice and the common falsetto.

4 1843.  Penny 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.

5 1855.  Smedley, H. Coverdale, lvii. 413. ‘To whom do I refer?’ repeated her husband, in the highest note of his shrill falsetto.

6 1879.  Grove, Dict. Mus., 501/2 The male counter-tenor, or alto voice, is almost entirely falsetto.

7   fig.  1796.  Burke, Regic. Peace, i. Wks. 1808, VIII. 103. The mock heroick falsetto of stupid tragedy.

8 1814.  Scott, Drama (1874), 186. All is tuned to the same smooth falsetto of sentiment.

9 1875.  Swinburne, Ess. & Studies, 249. Much of the poem is written throughout in falsetto.

10   2.  One who sings with a falsetto voice.

11 1789.  Burney, Hist. Mus., IV. 44. You are pleased … to compare the falsetti of former times with the soprani.

12 1884.  Niecks, Dict. Mus. Terms, Falsetto, a singer who sings soprano or alto parts with such a voice.

13   3.  attrib.

14 1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 276. A sort of falsetto tone in her speech.

15 1854.  Bushnan, in Circ. Sc. (c. 1865), I. 286/2. The falsetto voice has more of a humming character.

16 1876.  Foster, Phys., III. vii. (1879), 605. The vocal cords are seen to be wide apart when falsetto notes are uttered.

17 1889.  Spectator, 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.

18   Hence Falsettist, one who sings in falsetto.

19 1888.  H. E. Krehbiel, Surpliced Choirs in New York, in Harper’s Mag., LXXVII. June, 73/1. Soprano falsettists were once common enough in France, and especially in Spain.

20 1892.  Daily News, 28 July, 6/2. The Italian tenor … is an ‘incomparable falsettist.’

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