Explore: Technique Vocale

In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain

that is perceived as singing in more than one pitch at the same time—a technique called overtone singing or throat singing such as in the tradition of

written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale Köln. Its average length is seventy-four minutes, and it bears the work

Musicians of note in this genre include Collegium Vocale Köln (who first began using this technique in 1968), Michael Vetter, Trần Quang Hải, David Hykes

masses, or in particular to achieve political and mundane ends. Instrumentum vocale instrument with voice So Varro in his De re rustica (On Agriculture) defines

Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings): Renaissance choral Les Agrémens Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe): Renaissance and baroque choir Currende (Erik

German term used by the composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen to describe a technique in which a long note is replaced by shorter "melodic configurations, internally

Baltais fragments ('White fragment') (1978) Vasara ('Summer') (1978) Concerto vocale (1978) Klusās dziesmas ('Silent Songs') (1979) Skumjā māte ('Sad Mother')

to publish 'plusiers pieces de musique de sa composition, tant pour la vocale que l'instrumental, conjointement ou séparément' and used it immediately

Intermedii 1589, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Collegium Vocale Gent conducted by Skip Sempe, singers: Dorothée Leclair, Soprano / Monika