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Vocals vs Vocalization - What's the difference?

vocals | vocalization |

In music|lang=en terms the difference between vocals and vocalization

is that vocals is (music) the words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist while vocalization is (music) the production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.

As nouns the difference between vocals and vocalization

is that vocals is while vocalization is the act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.

vocals

English

(wikipedia vocals)

Noun

(head)
  • (music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist

    • Derived terms

    * backup vocals * lead vocals

    vocalization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
  • Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
  • The use of speech to express an idea
  • (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
  • (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
  • (linguistics) (w) of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people'' or the coda one in words like ''cold'' or ''coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[?], [u], [?] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in (African American Vernacular English), one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [p?ip?], [k?o?d], or [k?o?] respectively.

    • Synonyms

    * vowelization (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts ) * tashkil (Arabic ) * nikud (Hebrew )