head tone

Female singers should always begin the head tone on this degree of the staff and not on F and F♯, as is sometimes recommended.

I must, therefore, give it much more head tone than the single tone requires.

There are also singers, male and female, who use too much head tone through their entire compass; such voices are called "white."

The head tone is the voice of ordinary conversation and should form the basis of the public-speaking style.

He would expect you to employ for that purpose simply a head tone, not a chest tone nor an abdominal tone.