I found myself a good teacher!!
Seriously my problems stemmed from asthma (see earlier post on exercises).
The amount of tension I created in my upper chest literally did not allow me
to change into head voice. A lot of very patient work changed that, and now
it's happening. I still don't have a reliable high C, but it's getting
easier every time, and the notes just above the primo passaggio are soooo
much easier than they used to be.
Best wishes
Colin Reed
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From: "Robin L. Frye" <R.L.Frye@w...>
From: "Robin L. Frye" <R.L.Frye@w...>
To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
Sent: 27 November 2000 00:18
Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] New poll for vocalist-temporary
> Colin wrote:
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> >Do we have lots of mezzos, or do we have lots of sopranos without tops ?
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> >Just playing devil's advocate here, I realise that when I used to
describe
> >myself as a baritone it was because I was a tenor without a top.
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> Good question, Colin. There are certainly singers out there calling
> themselves mezzos who would be more accurately classified as sopranos.
Some
> of them even do have the high notes, but would prefer to be part of a
> considerably smaller fach where they might be more likely to be noticed (a
> certain Cecilia comes to mind).
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> Taking into account tessitura and vocal color in addition to range, I can
> assure you that this mezzo is most definitely a mezzo. No one has ever
> suggested that I might be a soprano, and a few people along the way have
> called me a contralto. I didn't think I had the heft needed in the lower
> part of my voice (without artificially darkening and weighing down the
> voice) to really pull that off. So a plain vanilla mezzo I remain - a
full
> lyric - with vocal weight, size and range pretty much smack in the middle.
> It actually suits me just fine; if I'm careful, I can choose repertoire
from
> a fairly wide fach spectrum.
>
> Ever the curious teacher, I'd like to know what you did to find your high
> notes?
>
> Robin Lynne Frye
> Mezzo-Soprano
> Voice and Piano Teacher
> New York, New York
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