| Title: | Falsetto |
| Original Title: | Fausset |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 6 (1756), p. 437 |
| Author: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (biography) |
| Translator: | Beverly Wilcox [California State University, Sacramento] |
| Subject terms: |
Music
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| Citation (MLA): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Falsetto." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Beverly Wilcox. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2021. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.248>. Trans. of "Fausset," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 6. Paris, 1756. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Falsetto." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Beverly Wilcox. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.248 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Fausset," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 6:437 (Paris, 1756). |
FALSETTO is the kind of voice by which a man, going above the range of his natural voice, imitates that of a woman. A man, when he sings the falsetto , almost does what an organ pipe does when it is overblown.