> I wonder if, Isabelle, you feel that your head and > chest voice are > separated in a particular zone, or if, as I do, you > feel you can take chest > up high or head down low?
Like all sopranos, I can take my head voice down into the "chesty" area (below middle C), although it becomes pretty inaudible below an A (the famous "Deh vieni" A). I could, if I wanted, take my chest voice up to a C5 or above (the C above middle C), but I find that damaging to the cords, both in terms of the dangers associated with belting and in terms of muscle memory.
A chest voice aside: Many of the "great" singers who biographies and books I have read (Nordica, Lehmann, a handful of the sopranos in the Hines book) repeated the old rule that a soprano should never, never take her chest voice above an E4. My teacher also advises, when singing chest-voice exercises, not taking the chest voice above an E or F4, which is my policy. Do others do this, as well?
I think my voice is pretty typical of most sopranos, except I don't have a freaky-high whistle register (I top out at an F6, sometimes a G). Do other sopranos on the list feel that they could sing, say, a B5 in two different voices -- supported and then that funny flip-falsetto feeling?
Isabelle B.
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