Oberon603@a... wrote: > However, I wanted to say that the majority of the CT's that are singing > now (including myself) use a falsetto technique. That's the only real > way to describe it...That's the only real way to describe it technically.
That's the problem, though. That's not technical enough, and our popular notions of what falsetto is make things needlessly complex. There is a technical description of what falsetto is, and it is not what most solo CTs are using nowadays. By definition, falsetto cannot have a singer's formant, and therefore cannot carry. James Bowman has a very large voice - his sound could not possibly be the result of flaccid vocal cords. There is no breathiness to his sound at all, and he has excellent dynamic control. Clearly, he has full closure, and the cords are providing a great deal of resistance to the airflow.
Most of my diatribes on falsetto vs. head voice died with the original vocalist archives, but I talk a little more about this in msg 7523 in our more recent archives. It will also be helpful to find any definitions of falsetto that Lloyd Hansen gives, he is rather thorough and has a really deep technical knowlege of this step-sister register.
Many people, even countertenors describe what they do as falsetto, since there is not much of vocabulary for discussing this fledgling fach (even Asawa calls it that, he's got the least falsetto-sounding timbre I've heard from any countertenor). On a list about the science and art of vocalization, however, I think we need to strive for precision and clarity... It can only help us!
> Every man has a falsetto, & can vocalize in the CT range. But not every man > feels that this is his most natural voice; and not every falsetto has the > technique & quality needed in order to have a career as a CT.
I don't know that I agree with this completely. A few men can't produce falsetto (especially tenors), and many more did not retain the ability to produce a true light mechanism head voice after puberty. But maybe that's what you mean that not every falsetto has the quality needed in order to have a career... You're special Ken! Revel in it ;-)
Tako
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