In a message dated 3/23/2001 8:41:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, toda@m... writes:
<< I'm not gonna flame ya :-) To defend Mozart, though, my guess is that he wrote for a different kind of tenor than the modern tenor. (he was probably writing for specific singers, too) I think the upper range had a lot of lightness to it. Now *I'm* gonna get flamed, but I believe tenors sang everything above G4 in what everyone seems to call "falsetto" (I call it light head voice, but whatever. In order to make that blend with the rest of the chest tones, tenors probably lightened things up starting as early as Eb4 so the switch to "falsetto" wouldn't be noticeable. >>
tako,
do you think the kind of counter-tenor you are (one that uses both modal and 'falsetto') is probably closer to the tenor of mozart's day than today's tenor? if not, what are the differences?
mike
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