Register
The colour zones within one instrument or voice
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Register is the set of colour zones within one instrument or voice: low register thick, middle steady, high bright, with a change of colour and technique at the breaks. It is not the range but the layering inside the range.
It differs from range: range is how far you can go, register is which colour layer you are in right now. The usual mistake is to think register is only high versus low — the same pitch in another production (chest/head voice, near the fingerboard/bridge) changes register; register is colour, not just frequency.
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Sources
- 人声与乐器音区的划分，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Register"；本文为原创表述
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