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From:  buzzcen@a...
Date:  Wed Sep 6, 2000  6:00 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Re: Source of frequencies was:FalsettoRecognition


What I was getting at, and have written about before in length, was that the
assumption that the female middle voice is rather long in nature, and low
occurring in the voice (as a byproduct of presumed correct function) is
false. The female chest voice is actually much longer than what more
classically oriented pedagogies teach. The low mix is imposed on the voice
early to create a femininity in the sound so that it is in line with a rather
dated concept of what is feminine as opposed to masculine, or crass, as a
lot of the classically based pedagogical texts put it.

The longer chest register be demonstrated by the simple lip trill. The shift
in resonance is much higher in the female voice in that exercise, an exercise
which more or less makes a singer sing in a very balanced manner.

Randy Buescher


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4027 Re: Source of frequencies was:FalsettoRecognition Lisa M Olson   Wed  9/6/2000   2 KB
4048 Re: Source of frequencies was:FalsettoRecognition Patricia M Smith   Thu  9/7/2000   2 KB
4176 Re: Source of frequencies was:FalsettoRecognition RALUCOB@a...   Sun  9/10/2000   2 KB

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