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From:  Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...>
Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...>
Date:  Thu Dec 7, 2000  3:47 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] RE: vocal registers: was: Re: BAROQUE TENOR


I have a "falsetto," and I have both an unsupported
head voice and a supported head voice (also a chest
voice, but that's down low).

In the "falsetto" tone, I create a breathy, hooty tone
that can not be crescendoed (a little-girly tone,
totally unconnected from my regular head voice). The
unsupported head voice sounds very similar to the
falsetto-girly-flip-tone, but I can crescendo on it.
The supported head voice is "opera" voice which I use
normally. Chest voice I save for below an F4.

I know they ("they" being Lloyd and Miller) say
there's no such thing as female falsetto -- that it's
all head voice -- but I just don't believe it. I
cannot go from my "falsetto" voice into a head tone
without a major flip/break. If I stop and re-attack
the note in unsupported (soft and breathy) head, then
I can go from there into regular head voice.
Likewise, I couldn't go from head to chest in my lower
voice without the same kind of flip/break.

Isabelle B.

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Isabelle Bracamonte
San Francisco, CA
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