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From:  "Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
Date:  Thu Aug 31, 2000  12:23 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Source of frequencies was:Falsetto Recognition


Mike:

The international school is a term used by Richard Miller and others
to loosely define the vocal techniques that originated in Italy
during the bel canto period and before. It is the kind of singing
that is usually associated with good operatic singing and requires
that all styles of singing be equally available within the technique
of the singer. In this sense, it is very different from some other
styles of singing which tend to emphasize one kind of vocal
production to the exclusion of all others. The direction of German
singing during the Wagner years, for example, tended to create a
voice that emphasized size, strength and long flowing vocal lines at
the expense of accuracy, flexibility, and long singing life.

The teaching of the bright/dark tone, or chiaroscuro, in the
international school emphasized a slightly lowered larynx to obtain
the space relationship suggested in the 1-6 ratio spoken of by
Sundberg and others. The discovery of the Singer's Formant through
spectrography only reaffirmed the vocal ring which this technique
taught and emphasized.

--
Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011

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