To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Exposing children to head voice sound
Date sent: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:44:03 -0800
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>


When I was a kid I listened to quite a bit of choral music sung by
children's choirs, because I had a couple of recordings given to me. Good
conductors of children's choirs normally aim for the headvoice sound, and I
believe it is also hard to "imitate" any one voice in this - b/c there are
so many people singing! The music on these tapes ranged from unison art
songs and folk songs, to more complex ones that involved harmony.

Fiona

> From: "Katherine Craig"

> My kids like Julie Andrews and Charlotte Church (and me) but the first two
> voices are not something I want them to even think of emulating being so
big
> and mature sounding. (I finally saw Charlotte singing on Leno the other
> night and she really did have a chin wobble. Is it your opinion that it is
> nervous tension or it is conscious?) So my kids (7 and 8) just sing for
> fun, we are just getting into round singing and they sing with the just
for
> fun kids choir at church. They also play recorder. I don't want to train
> them as singers but just help them enjoy singing and help keep them from
> forming bad habits and give them a diversity of good models. I formed bad
> habits all on my own just from what I listened to.