At 06:55 PM 4/20/00 EDT, LikeSoMuchFish@a... wrote:
>I asked my voice teacher(Dr. Bill Reed),if men could belt ..
>His answer was Yesbut only high voices.. The higher the voice the easier to
>belt Lower voices(basicaly every voice that can not be classified as Tenor)
>can not.
I've often wondered if there isn't some correlation with female
voices, or at least for mine. Sopranos I've know are more likely to be able
to produce a belt sound, but it seems to be much more difficult for most low
mezzos or contraltos, like myself. I gave up the notion long ago that belt
was *entirely* a matter of carrying chest voice up, but that seems to be
part of the equation (thus tenors being able to belt, since the transition
from chest to head happens higher for them). I have over an octave of "pure
chest" voice, but it's primarily middle C and below. While I can produce a
"mixed" sound above that, it's a very "classical" sound. Any thoughts?
Leslie J.
Leslie Jones, D.M.A.; Contralto
Southeast Missouri State University
LJones@s... - (573) 651-2339
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