Word: vibrato
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Mass. The Vice President has no specific flag. But in his office is a flag specially made for him. a U. S. flag of rich silk on a short mahogany staff. It is fringed with gold, surmounted with an eagle, has two gold tassels.-ED. Al Smith's Vibrato...
...Smith's "legato has no vibrato" (TIME, Dec. 12) carries the wrong implication: namely, that absence of vibrato is a mark of good singing...
Recent investigations in the psychological laboratory have demonstrated that every good singer uses the vibrato, not only on sustained notes, but on short notes and glides. What musical critics object to is the tremolo. We are prepared to show that the vibrato is used by every one of the Metropolitan opera singers in at least 95% of his intonations; that the vibrato of these singers consists of a pitch oscillation around the heard pitch averaging about one-half musical step in extent; that it also expresses itself in loudness and timbre pulsations; that one-half of the best song tones...
Therefore, the meaning of TIME'S comment, "legato has no vibrato," if true, means that the famous politician has no musical feeling to express. The chances, however, are that he did sing with a vibrato which was so subtle as to escape the ear of the critic...
...notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato was not languishing but neither did it have the vibrato so regrettably common among inexperienced singers...