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: > > > 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, > > Caio Rossi > > > > > > > >
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