| Subject: Re: whistle tone - definitions and links From: Jessica To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
on 1/21/00 4:05 PM, Uranal-at-aol.com at Uranal-at-aol.com wrote: > okay so all that high crap that mariah carey does is called whistle tone? > and how does one exactly achieve that..i looked back at the archives and i > cannot find a specific definition of whistle tone
One should not aspire to "achieve" a whistle tone - it's not desireable. Tako Oda put it quite well today - below is his post. I am surprised you could not find anything on the whistle tone in the archives - I found tons about it. I have included his post below. Since he mentions the term flageolot, I have included a link to the archives which discusses the difference between whistle tone and flageolot:
http://www.vocalist.org/html/9910/msg00311.html
For a good list of definitions about vocal terms in general, you might try: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=s1M http://www.omnidisc.com/MUSIC/Glossary.html http://www.allmusic.com/mus_Glossary.html http://www.vocalist.org/html/9807/msg01464.html
and I'm sure other listers might have other links to suggest. If you want a more extensive definition of whistle tone and/or other definitions, please try searching the archives again, there are lots of posts about this topic. I know, I found many of them. Meanwhile, here is Tako's post about whistle tone:
on 1/21/00 3:38 PM, Tako Oda at toda-at-mills.edu wrote: > You might want to learn how to use flageolet, but you probably want to > steer clear of whistle voice. It's distinct from flageolet in that it > cannot reconcile with lower registers. Also, the ability to produce it > is often associated with abused vocal cords. > > My guess is that Mariah Carey is using whistle - she never blends it to > her lower voice. I also get the impression her cords get a lot of abuse. > I used to be able to produce whistle tones, but only after thrashing my > voice considerably attempting to sing in the wrong fach! Hope this > helps!
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