Caio Rossi wrote :
<< BTW, my first singing teacher used to tell me to turn the /i:/ sound into
/I/ when singing higher notes. She said it was impossible to keep the lips
tense for the /i:/ cause you had to open up and round you lips for those
higher notes. I hear that in many pop singers too, though my previous
teacher ( which is not the one cited above ) would keep them clearly
different. Have you ever noticed such thing?>>
I agree with your first singing teacher, but I don't understand her reasons.
Why tensing your lips to produce a /i:/?
A better reason for singing [I] instead of [i] would be the need to move the
first vowel formant above the sung note. This would be true for female
voices singing above the staff.
For male voices, the reason would rather be to keep a wide pharyngeal space
when singing higher pitches, in order to keep these notes "on the air
column", "connected", and to relax the vocal folds ([I] being easier to
produce than i]) so as to go more easily into head voice... But all this is
highly un-scientific!
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