omtara wrote:
> This causes me to think there must be some kind of middle ground > where you are in character, but are still mainly focused on singing > correctly. Is this how it feels to you? Any hints or insights? Much > appreciated!
I've found that I need to "work" music into my voice, very painstakingly. It takes a lot longer than just learning the notes and rhythms and words - correct diction for singing, though, is a big piece of it. And in my case, it does not happen quickly. But when the music is worked into my voice, then I don't have to think much about technical issues, and I feel able to be expressive. (But there's always a little undercurrent of technique awareness.)
When I do this well, my expressiveness is not just in the "acting" sense, but also in the musical sense. It is very gratifying to sing a musical phrase exactly the way I want to sing it. Crescendo, decrescendo, pure legato, perfect staccato, all the breath I need. When the composer has written good music, and I've made good artistic choices, the purely musical expressivity gets to the audience as much or more than whatever emoting I might think I'm doing.
So keep working on the technique - and take your time by working the music into your voice, and you'll be so much more expressive than you were before you got your technique going.
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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