LYNDA313@a... wrote:
LYNDA313@a... wrote:
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> Does anyone have that old posting about miking only at certain hertz levels
> in order to make diction sound clearer and not just amplifying volume?
> Singers who used that system did not back off. at all.
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Thank you for noticing Lynda. That was mine.
> Isabelle...some of the young singers I have heard in conservatory settings
> who sing opera roles there have that "ring" in their voices on most pitches,
> but not all voices are totally even at tender ages of 20 and 21...or 30 or
> 31! ... thus not all have ring all the way through on all vowels. They are
> still learning and the voice is still developing. Yes...the voice will
> grow...I have listened to my own daughter's voice become clearer and bigger
> and higher throughout the years of her undergraduate studies. I have no
> doubts that she still has further to go. She will sing her opera role this
> spring without amplification, but she is fortunate to have a hall in which
> this can be done easily. In the case of her school, the singers who usually
> get the roles are grad students...wonder why? It is because their voices are
> better developed by that time...thus easier and clearer to be heard over
> orchestras. Just my own observations.
>
We have a fine graduate program and we use them for major singing
whenever possible, but I have been in programs where undergraduates were
completely left out of significant experiences and training. This is a
way to give them the most complete training possible while not
over-driving their vocal development. We want life-time singers - not
singer's whose voices are trashed before they are 35.
--
Dr. Barry Bounous
Brigham Young University
School of Music
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