quintina

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noun

A Sardinian vocal technique in which four performers produce an apparent fifth voice.

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Meanings

noun
  1. entertainmentA Sardinian vocal technique in which four performers produce an apparent fifth voice.

    The quartet singing the liturgical music hears a fifth voice, the quintina, emerge — an acoustic effect of combined overtones, or so one might rationalize.

    2013, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics, page 152
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    […] often he experiences that the performance has an excellent amalgam also without the quintina, because he can feel the situation of "mutual harmony between himself and his friends" […]

    2017, Ardian Ahmedaja, European Voices III, page 132

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Chicago

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