On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 mjruhl@s... wrote:
> I would further refine, and perhaps complicate, this discussion!
hooray!
> If one can generalize, I have noticed that American women tend
> to speak in chest voice regardless of singing fach, and English
> women tend to speak in head voice, or at least higher in the
> register.
I always think of Julia Child - the ultimate female falsettist :-)
> I asked Peter Giles (English countertenor, ct scholar,
> and teacher of all fachs)about my observation, and he said he
> has noticed it, too.
Perhaps this cultural bias is responsible for the rich crop of
countertenors from England?
To complicate things still further - why do men speak in chest voice only?
I think this may be almost as unnatural as women speaking in pure head.
Out of the closet femmie gay men, who have no reason to assert their
masculinity in society, often speak in a mixed voice. Yet they are often
bass-baritones when they sing. Maybe most other men are afraid of
emasculization?
When I read out loud to my kids, I speak in a mix, or my voice tires
easily. I think it is also more comforting to young children to hear a
more higher range voice, perhaps motherly?
Tako
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