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What does it mean: "it's sung in a deep register"? Not only because it's sung in a deep register, but also it's a song about deeper or serious matters.
Mar 14, 2016 2:10 AM
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The word "register" when referring to music means a particular range of notes. So a "deep register" is a range of notes at a low pitch.
March 14, 2016
Often, a musical instrument can produce a low note if it's played in a certain way, and a high note--perhaps an octave higher--if it's played almost the same way, but with some slight difference in technique or strength. A singing voice will often have several "registers." For example, male singers will sometime sing an octave higher using what is sometimes called "falsetto." That would be their "upper register." Conversely--I'm not sure about this, maybe someone else can help me out--I think female sopranos naturally sing in an upper register, and only rarely sing in their "lower register."
March 14, 2016
Thanks a lot!
March 14, 2016
"Sung in a deep register" would almost always be talking about using low notes. A use of it to mean serious would be be just a poetic analogy that a particular author might use, but would not be common. It is true thought that "deep" commonly means "serious" or "insightful".
March 14, 2016
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