The discussion of female high notes. falsetto vs. head, high vs. low prompts these thoughts:
Though men have undoubtedly imposed many things on women throughout history, quite a lot of the vagaries of fashion are of their own making, or at least with their collusion: hemlines vary in much the same way that styles of speech do, and, particularily in the modern West, the degree of individual variation has almost upstaged the broad generality of fashion. Men are not immune to such changes of fashion either.
On the subject of female falsetto, already rehearsed on this list a few months ago: I wonder if a powerful singer like Jane Eaglen, who sometimes produces a falsetto-like timbre in higher notes, is simply forcing her properly adducted vocal chords further apart because of her enormous breath pressure, so that the timbre becomes falsetto even while the arytenoids are squished together. john John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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