chenweijie81@y... wrote: chenweijie81@y... wrote: > if haute contre have such a high and light chest voice,does that > affect the volume of the sound in their chest voice???
Generally the voice is smaller, but that goes for the highest coloraturas too. But there is another reason the sound is softer in general. The haute contre is bridging to a higher register that has a higher inherent range than the chest voice, which means A440 will be softer in the upper voice than it would be in chest. There is a lot of finessing that must occur to switch from a G4 in chest to a A4 in what many would call a supported falsetto production. You have to limit your chest volume to make the break smoother.
> From what u have said,it's as if the haute contre don't > have to bring his head voice down at all since he himself have such a > high chest voice.I wonder if they sounded like real counter-tenors...
There are still haute contre out there. IMO, the haute contre is simply on the spectrum of countertenors, just with a higher break. Most other countertenors use the exact same two main registers but switch lower. They are often considered tenors, though, since they use their tenor ranges for the majority of their ranges. There is a great deal of debate about what is a real countertenor. If you search our archives, you will find a lot of stuff.
Tako
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