Screlting (screaming/screeching + belting)

“Screlt” is a portmanteau word of “scream”/“screech” and “belt.” It’s usually given as “screlting,” and a person who does this is a “screlter.”
     
“rebecca clark’s music is screlting at me” was posted on Twitter by Gymn-Stands.com on August 13, 2009. “Thank you for bringing back screlting!” was posted on Twitter by Kara O’Connell on October 25, 2009. “Screlting A term used to describe the upper most part of the female “belt” voice. A chesty mix of sorts, generally accompanied by copious amounts of ping. Screlting in the female voice begins around an F5 and extends upward” was entered in the Urban Dictionary on March 20, 2010. “Screlting, you’re familiar with the term belting. Screlting is a sort of a notch up from that. It’s a cross between screeching and belting” was said in “Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaches You Broadway Slang” by Vanity Fair on November 27, 2018.
 
”Screlt i. A Screamed-belt. ii. A method of singing where the singer tries to belt and ends up screaming. Most often occurs when the singer is trying to belt higher than a D above middle c. iii. How one acquires vocal nodules” was entered in the Urban Dictionary  on October 25, 2010. “Screlt: v/n - to effectively belt ridiculous above-the-staff high notes, usually reserved for screaming.  ‘Her screlt is her secret weapon’” was posted on Twitter by MT Dictionary on December 13, 2010.
   
“I’ve always been a fan of a great screlter” was posted on Twitter by Jordan Barrow on August 9, 2010. “#PrepareYe Godspell is smackin me with humidity and screlters” was posted on Twitter by Anthony Lee Medina on July 7, 2011. “RT @EthieContreras: Who are all these tone deaf screlters at this audition?! Get out please” was posted on Twitter by Emily Jacobson on August 18, 2011.
 
 
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Gymn-Stands.com
@gymnstands
rebecca clark’s music is screlting at me
8:52 PM · Aug 13, 2009
   
Twitter
Kara O’Connell
@drowsybrowser
@adamlambert Thank you for bringing back screlting!
6:18 AM · Oct 25, 2009
 
Urban Dictionary 
Screlting
A term used to describe the upper most part of the female “belt” voice. A chesty mix of sorts, generally accompanied by copious amounts of ping. Screlting in the female voice begins around an F5 and extends upward.
Etymology: Scream + Belting = screlting
Variations: Screlter (one who screlts)
“Christina Aguilera can out-screlt Celine Dion any day!”
“That sure was some face melting screlting!”
by myneckmyback March 20, 2010
           
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Patricia Targete
@ThePepMonster
Liza Minnelli is a nurse at holy cross hospital. Maybe she helps patients through screlting.
8:25 PM · Apr 27, 2010
 
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Fernando Contreras
@omgitzfern
@JanelleMonae gives me that good belting and screlting on every song
2:12 PM · Jul 1, 2010
 
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Jordan Barrow
@JordanT_B
Replying to @benaholtzman
@benholtzman I’ve always been a fan of a great screlter. That show better be released on dvd for us less fortunate ones!
11:42 AM · Aug 9, 2010
 
Urban Dictionary 
Screlt
i A Screamed-belt. ii. A method of singing where the singer tries to belt and ends up screaming. Most often occurs when the singer is trying to belt higher than a D above middle c. iii. How one acquires vocal nodules.
Sarah was really fierce in senior showcase! She totally screlted a high C!
by Mierce Kitty October 25, 2010
       
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MT Dictionary
@mtdictionary
@LindsayMendez is a vocal masterclass: mix, belt, belt-mix, riffs, high screlt. Brills
10:25 PM · Dec 13, 2010
   
Twitter
MT Dictionary
@mtdictionary
Screlt: v/n - to effectively belt ridiculous above-the-staff high notes, usually reserved for screaming.  “Her screlt is her secret weapon.”
11:01 PM · Dec 13, 2010
   
Twitter
Schyler Conaway
@schylerconaway
In Accent and Dialects and someone is recklessly belting in the Rehearsal Hall….Screlting, if you will. #soundsgoodthough #theybetta
3:52 PM · Mar 15, 2011
 
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Anthony Lee Medina (He/Him)
@AntLeeMe123
#PrepareYe Godspell is smackin me with humidity and screlters.
11:11 AM · Jul 7, 2011
   
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Emily Jacobson
@Weeks9020
RT @EthieContreras: Who are all these tone deaf screlters at this audition?! Get out please.
2:28 PM · Aug 18, 2011
   
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Tevyn Hill
@TevynJermaine
Replying to @Modern_Hermit
@mikekidd13 Dramatic belters are classically trained screlters.
7:46 PM · Apr 14, 2012
   
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Eric Swanson
@esswanson
@alissahetzner I totally thought of you. A role description for a new show specifically asks for “screlters”.aka singers with nodes.
2:36 PM · Oct 31, 2012
   
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the bird from hereditary
@TheBobbyHall
Omg so glad these girls aren’t all Musical Theatre screlters and are just sorority girls.
9:36 AM · Feb 6, 2015
 
YouTube
Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaches You Broadway Slang | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
Nov 27, 2018
Vanity Fair cover star Lin-Manuel Miranda teaches you Broadway slang.
   
Vanity Fair
SLANG SCHOOL | SEASON 1 | EPISODE 35
Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaches You Broadway Slang
Vanity Fair cover star Lin-Manuel Miranda teaches you Broadway slang.
Released on 11/27/2018
Transcript
(...)
Screlting, you’re familiar with the term belting.
Screlting is
a sort of a notch up from that.
It’s a cross between screeching and belting.
I don’t wanna use any specific examples
because I don’t want to get into trouble,
but we live for the good screlt.
We live for the good dramatic screlt.
And if you ever see me in person
I’ll give you some of my favorite examples.
       
28 January 2019, University Wire (Carlsbad, CA),  ‘“Rent: Live’ betrays the spirit of live theater, but it’s still fun” by Kathryn de la Rosa: 
Of course I was a Renthead. That’s not even a question. Where else did I learn screlting (“scream belting”), a shallow history of the AIDS crisis and toxic ideas about bisexuality?
 
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Rod Thorn 📝🎭🎙💬☯️🌎IG: @rodthorn
@rodthorn
Replying to @FirewifeyOG1
Musical theatre singers who are constantly belting on stage. They call it “screlting” (screaming + belting). The audio people don’t adjust and it blows out my ears.
5:13 PM · Dec 18, 2020
     
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ale
@remsdivine
screlting, my new favorite word, belting and screaming. an astonishing duo !
8:42 PM · Jun 28, 2021
 
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Mezzoid Voice Studio
@MVSBaltimore
There is belting, but it doesn’t go as high, and it’s not as dramatic as today’s screlters. It’s a question of voice type, or what is called fach (https://mezzoidvoicestudio.blog/2020/05/13/what-the-actual/) in opera.
1:23 PM · Nov 30, 2021
 
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the grinch who stole thiccmas
@zimmerob
it’s a screlt along to the original broadway cast recording of wicked while working from home kinda day
12:46 PM · Nov 29, 2022