Editing Vocal range (section)

{{short description|Measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate}}
{{About|voice categories in classical music|non-classical music|Voice classification in non-classical music|a more technical treatment of the human voice|Voice frequency}}

'''Vocal range''' is the range of [[pitch (music)|pitches]] that a [[human voice]] can [[Phonation|phonate]]. A common application is within the context of [[singing]], where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into [[voice type]]s.<ref name=McKinney>{{cite book
|title= The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults
|last= McKinney ....
|first= James
|year= 1994
|publisher= Genovex Music Group
|isbn=978-1-56593-940-0}}</ref> It is also a topic of study within [[linguistics]], [[phonetics]], and [[speech-language pathology]], particularly in relation to the study of [[tonal language]]s and certain types of vocal disorders, although it has little practical application in terms of speech.