They seem to do so by singing different elements of their repertoire when singing reactively.
He was in his element, singing along to the Juventus anthem at the top of his lungs, "Juveeee storia di un grandeamoooreeee," which I know all too well because it has been his cellphone ring tone.
For instance, the vocal behavior of singing birds comprises functional elements with distinct associated time scales, such as notes and syllables (groups of notes), that are represented hierarchically in the avian forebrain [1].
Besides such context-dependent variation in the song, we found a few parameters to change over the course of the season: Spontaneously singing females produced song elements at lower pitch early in the breeding season.
There's even an element of dance, to her inner music, in her gestures offstage, an element of singing in her speech, a sense that time is not to be measured or filled but created and transformed.
This is reflected in plotting frequency against duration for all reactive vocal elements: In most reactively singing females, duration and pitch of some elements clearly departed from the ranges shown by parameters during spontaneous singing (Fig. 2, top panel).
Singing is just one element of Antony's career arc -- at the time he'd spent more than a decade working the experimental theater circuit -- but on that album, he forewent almost all ornamentation, finding majesty in the forlorn.
The country singer, who seemed most in her element when singing her lines, already had a big habit to fill since Julie Andrews personified Maria to millions of fans in the wildly successful and beloved 1965 film adaptation of the play.
Mostly spoken rather than sung, it incorporates elements of Sondheim and sprinklings of Ry Cooder guitar.
Stevie Wonder, in Power Flower, channels this god from the dawn of modern thinking to sing about the elements of fire, air and water.
