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quintina

quintina noun: a Sardinian vocal technique in which four performers produce an apparent fifth voice.

Noun

quintina

  1. A 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
    • […] 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

Questions about quintina

What does quintina mean?
Quintina means a Sardinian vocal technique in which four performers produce an apparent fifth voice.
What part of speech is quintina?
Quintina is a noun.

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