sprechgesang
IPA: sprˈɛkgɪsʌŋ
noun
- (music) A form of recitative between speaking and singing
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Examples of "sprechgesang" in Sentences
- Sprechgesang is a combination singing and speaking.
- From chilling Vincent Price sprechgesang to hideous prosthetics
- Thus sprechgesang is often simply a German alternative to recitative.
- His art of singing is often sprechgesang, especially on later albums.
- More light hookage and sprechgesang-style singing a la Tricky would make this act pretty formidable.
- Disgusting things you'd never anticipate? sprechgesang those immortal words in 1980, he was referring to a party out of bounds.
- Giovanna Cacciola's voice sounds like a mix of Björk, PJ Harvey, and Lydia Lunch, her style somewhere between sprechgesang and shouting.
- For once, adequate nuance is audible in Irons 'rapping - there's a little growl in "interga - lac-tic" - and the same goes for Harris-White's vocal contribution, which ping-pongs between icy sprechgesang and heathery singing.
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