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From:  Takeshi Oda <toda@m...>
Takeshi Oda <toda@m...>
Date:  Wed Dec 6, 2000  6:04 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] RE: vocal registers: was: Re: BAROQUE TENOR


If your "falsetto" is something upon which you may crescendo, then yes,
I'd call that a form of head voice. The mechanics of true falsetto
precludes the kind of control over dynamics which exists in other
registers.

Tak

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Caio Rossi wrote:

> Tako wrote:
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> > I've always been mystified by what seems an inability to access true
> > falsetto in many tenors. Is it just trained out of them, or is because
> > their larynges are smaller...?
> >
> > I guess the second explanation could sort of make sense, considering that
> > women have still shorter cords than tenors and there is basically no such
> > thing as a female falsetto (at least in the clinical sense).
>
> That's the same explanation I've always heard, but then, as I told the list
> some times, how come I have a falsetto but have cords between the average
> size a woman's and a man's?
>
> I can remember Lloyd said once that women don't have a falsetto, but a
> different register that may be taken as being falsetto, but it's actually
> something else ( I think the name was flageollot, or is it still something
> else? ).
>
> Given that, I was thinking the other day: light tenors ( supposedly, with
> cords like mine ) might be entitled to reach that 'quasi-falsetto' register
> that women have, the same kind of 'falsetto' voice that Mike says women use
> as supposedly their head voices and the lighter form of head voice you and
> Lloyd agreed to exist.
>
> Does that make sense, or am I assuming everything that's weird has the same
> explanation?
>
> Bye,
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> Caio Rossi
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