Jennifer wrote:
> > In my high school chorus, I hear other girls > > in my section (I'm an alto) who just can't hit notes > > above, say, a B4 or a C5 because they simply can't > > push their chest voice up any higher. (It makes me > > wonder if some of these girls wouldn't be sopranos > > if they'd only use their head voice, but that's > > a-whole-nother story.) > > That was me exactly! I didn't even know what a head > voice was until I started taking lessons as an adult > and discovered I was a soprano.
In a similar vein, I also believe that another subset of true sopranos who sing in alto sections do so because their voices thin and sound strained at aprox. D5 - E5, and they think that is the limit of their voice or that their voice breaks there. Been there, done that. However having problems in this area doesn't mean that one is true alto or mezzo. When I was young, choir directors always told me that I was a soprano, but I resisted singing iin the soprano section because what good is a soprano without an E5? Taking lessons as an adult has helped me a lot.
Barbara Roberts mikebarb@n...
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