My own aesthetic/taste suggests a compromise: I don't like singing that
sounds like speech, but I do want intelligibility, at least most of the
time. I suggest what Miller reports as aggiustamento, where there is some
modification of every vowel to keep a uniform degree of resonance, so it is
not quite like the vowel one might use in speaking, but still sounds very
much like it in performance.
That's what I like. john
At 01:07 PM 10/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
... the muddying of the vowels.
>Many consonant sound can be inferred by the context, but when the vowels all
>tend to migrate towards "uh" throughout the whole voice, including the
bottom
>where they should resemble speech, you end up with mush.
John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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