Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:
> 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)... 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, generally la voce (as I refer to the instrument) does about as you
describe yours, with slight variations from day to day, depending on mood,
room resonance, etc. It really doesn't want to carry chest much above the E
(just above middle C) and I have always been taught not to push it, so I
don't. I may have experienced the freaky-high whistle register effect you
mention once or twice, but it was only in a few chromatic notes just above
"high C" when I didn't quite have the proper upper palate/larynx positions.
It *was* weird!
Diane - Soprano
Silicon Valley, CA USA
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