Sentence examples for upper notes from inspiring English sources

Vitalij Kowaljow again showed a nice, warm bass, though with some constriction in his upper notes.

But this led to a lack of vocal freedom that translated into a tendency for upper notes to stray flat (consistently, in Schubert's "Im Frühling").

William Joyner sang Don José with a hard-edged, effortful sound, his upper notes fraying around the edges by the end of the opera.

Poor May Hessian, height "short", was described as having a "good voice – upper notes vg – but she has no appearance or presence for principal parts".

As a bright-voiced high lyric soprano, Ms. Christy had an easier time negotiating the sustained upper notes of the young Jiang's music, though she, too, was taxed unnecessarily.

But the qualities Bocelli detractors love to hate are all here as well: a thinness of voice, oddly anemic phrasing (including shortchanging upper notes of phrases in a most untenorial manner), a curious lack of expression.

In the examples above, the upper note is suspended then resolved.

An upper note in a mother's lament, "Vieni, o figlio" from Handel's "Ottone," demonstrates absolute, quiet vulnerability.

It is in itself an imprecise measurement, specifying neither whether the interval is major or minor nor in which octave register that upper note should be played.

If we go up a fifth from the lowest note in the octave and then up a fourth from there, we will reach the upper note of the octave.

Note that the treble clef is the upper line of music notes.