wim wrote:
<< The reason I talked of a 'robust' female voice is that the mass of
the vocal folds would have to be high enough to enable the singer
to achieve a high enough closed quotient (= percentage of time
the glottis is closed), to really sound like a tenor.
I agree with you that the technique could be used by less robust
voices as well, but I guess it would be less efficient. >>
wim,
it may be that the resultant singing by a woman would just not be
appropriate for classical music. i keep seperate the production of the
voice from the arts of what to do with it. within the aesthetics of an
artform (in its narrowest view), there are things that are highly desirable
and things that are unacceptable. if aretha franklin had learned an
operatic technique, appropriate for women, we might never have heard of her.
mike
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