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Subject: "formants" & voice classifications (was: Questions)
From: Jessica
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Hi Carla, I am certainly not the expert in these regards. I hope other
listers will chime in. There are many listers who can offer much better
suggestions along these lines than I could even begin to and I will defer to
them. I'm glad, however, to hear your working thing out and working through
some new repertoire. That's great!

Best,
Jessica


on 1/21/00 7:51 PM, Carla Fonseca at fonseca-barbatti-at-uol.com.br wrote:
> I've been studying voice with a certain discipline for four months. > I
> can sing pretty comfortable from F bellow middle C up to high C#. My voice
> teacher has classified my voice as a lyric spinto soprano.
> What's the requirement for (dramatic) coloratura. Is that just a matter of
> expanding one's range?
> Once I heard that the lyric spinto repertoire is the most envied one. Why?
> Another one: what are the so called "formants"? How does a person adjust the
> vowel production to these formants?