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Vocalization

noun

1.

The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract. Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, voice, vox. "The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"

2.

The use of uttered sounds for auditory communication. Synonym: utterance.

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"Vocalization" Quotes from Famous Books

... professors. There is a science of harmony, a science of composition, a science of orchestration, a science of performance upon stringed instruments, a science of performance upon wind instruments, a science of vocalization; not a branch of the art of music but has its own analogous body of classified facts and general laws. Music is so much a science that a man may be a thorough musician who has never written a tune and who cannot play upon any instrument."* ...

— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims

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... same when he had ordered this man to load up back at Tibara. Perhaps it was no wonder Dar Makun had been forced to learn vocalization if this was the best slave he could find to develop into ...

— The Weakling • Everett B. Cole

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