The below snip from Axwell, triggered a few questions for me:
1) what is commonly accepted as the point/upper limit for bringing chest
voice in a female voice (soprano and mezzo, please) in classical singing?
I have heard both that bringing raw chest above a certain point regularly
will severely damage the voice permanently, and, alternatively, that it
will not necessarily do permanent damage, but that it is just not
"classical" style to bring it past a certain point.
2) I'd like to hear anyone's on vocalists opinion on the upper limit
(safely) for chest voice, using middle C as a reference point. Some of the
"upper limits for safety" that I've heard seem low to me.
3) Finally, what would be the minimum point at which one should be able to
bring raw chest? I certainly don't want to become so afraid of using
chest voice that I leave it ignored and under-developed. But at the same
time I don't want to damage my voice.
I do have a teacher to help me monitor all this with my own voice, but I'm
interested in hearing multiple of experiences and opinions.
Thanks,
Sandra
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> From: Axwell@a...
> To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Riggs/Allen
> Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 2:07 PM
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> As far as I recall from of Randy's posts in the past, the SLS
technique
> brings
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> the chest voice too high for operatic singing. Above E above middle C.
This
> sound
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> is not acceptable in classical singing and is not one that can be used in
> virtuoso
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> passages.
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