From: "mjmoody2000 <mjmoody@c...
Date: Fri Jan 24, 2003 4:07 pm
Subject: Re: Female "Carusos" of the new millennium
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I can't help but wonder if the "new style" of female belting that
has taken over pop music might somehow be related to the "new type"
of tenor singing that "took over" the vocal scene in the mid 1800s.
Singers are so often told not to abuse their chest-voices and yet we
have singers like Barbra Streisand who have seemingly been taking
their chest voices high for YEARS and also seemingly have less
problems than many operatic counterparts.
It also seems to me when I hear some of these "good" belters, that
they appear to be in "head voice" down low - but they are able to
get a "chesty" sound up high. I'm wondering if the good belters use
the same techniques that good tenors use to get their high notes. I
admire much of the writing on "speech-level" singing and note that
registrational issues are important in this concept - yet the
desired result is often a voice that "sounds" like a chest quality
voice throughout the range.
Just a possibility for a new thread.
John
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