Talk:Singing
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disambiguation and consolidation
I propose that the topic singing be more narrowly defined as "the act of producing musical verbal communication with the human voice", and that the topic human voice as an instrument be created to refer to both singing and non-singing (per the above definition) uses of the human voice to produce music, such as the following:
- Bel canto
- Rapping
- Sprechgesang
- Scat singing
- Yodeling
- Beatboxing
- the bit at the bottom of this article about hardcore punk hoarse shouting
- Screaming
- Folk singing
- Spoken word / performance poetry
et cetera
Thoughts?
(Warning: I might go ahead and do this myself if there's no discussion within a few weeks ;^) )
a cappella
The reference to "a cappella" is all accurate, but it doesn't belong here; it belongs in the "choir" entry, since it's a term used almost exclusively for ensemble singing. Wahoofive 17:09, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Need edits
Okay, so I'm gonna do some pretty heavy edits on this page if no one has objections. The physical description of the act of singing is quite incorrect. The mention of show choirs in this article is odd, as well as punk, emo, and rock singing. I mean, as mentioned in a comment below, if we are going to address certain ways/styles of singing, we need to do an overview of all of them.
I also think we should consider condensing the Wikipedia articles "Singer" and "Singing."
BeholdHowFree 06:37, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
- This article definitely could stand some improvement. Also look at Human voice for some more material on singing which could be merged here.—Wahoofive (talk) 06:38, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Image
Having a photo of someone singing is a nice idea, but I've removed it. It's copyright, and I don't think we can claim fair use since this article is not about the person shown singing. Surely some wikipedian can get a GFDL shot of a choir singing? -- Tarquin 10:22, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
