howl

A howl it's a He shouted: a forced and passionate expression that is performed with a very high sound. Screaming can be a shrill yelling that arises spontaneously by a great pain or for a joy sudden.

For example: "Upon hearing the tragic news, the woman screamed", "The scream of happiness of the Chilean athletes was felt throughout the stadium", "What was that scream? I'll investigate".

The screams are linked to the emotions. They do not seek to convey a message, but rather express a state of mind that is produced by some event. The scream can come from surprise, fear, joy, etc.

Take the case of a young woman who is lying on her bed, reading a book and listening music with headphones. The girl thinks she is alone in her house. That is why when you suddenly feel that someone touch the leg, gets scared and utters a howl. The one who had touched her was her father who had just returned to the house without the girl hearing him. Hence the surprise of the young woman and the scream that escaped her.

A scream can also break in on positive news. A man receives a phone call from a television program, announcing that has won a million dollars for having participated in a contest. Hearing the news, the man lets out a howl since he cannot contain the excitement for such a prize.

It is usual that when a person hear a scream, panic, or fret. Therefore, horror movies they usually include screams from the protagonists with the intention of transmitting nervousness to the viewer. In the same way, it is common that the reaction to the most shocking scenes of a film of this genre is the scream.

As part of a proper noun, we find the term howl in a 1948 Spanish comedy titled «The scream«. It is a co-production between Spain and Italy, directed by Ferruccio Cerio, who also participated in the script. The film was broadcast in both countries and its actors include Pablo Álvarez Rubio, Rafael Bardem, Julia Caba Alba and Aurelia Carrascal. The story is about a composer who writes a musical work in which the experience of a character is told in a clinic whose director believes that the jealousy are one of many pathological diseases.

It is worth mentioning that many times people outside the world of music rate the notes sharp uttered by singers as "screams" or "screams," especially those in lyrical music, and this couldn't be further from the truth. To sing a note, high or low, it is necessary to have a technique that includes a particular way of breathing, retaining and dosing the air, opening the throat and articulating the vowels, among other things, while a scream is impulsive and unstructured.

Unlike a note sung with proper technique, howling can be detrimental to the speech system, the group of organs in our body that has the task of producing and amplifying the sound generated during speech or singing. It is made up of three sets of well-defined organs, which are the following: those of respiration, those of phonation and those of articulation. These groups of organs can also be identified according to the type of cavity they represent, and in this case we can speak of the infraglottic (the trachea, bronchi and lungs), the glottic (the vocal cords, the resonators - pharyngeal, buccal and nasal - and the larynx) and the supraglottic (lips, teeth, tongue, palate and glottis).