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From:  "Laura Sharp" <lasharp@n...>
"Laura Sharp" <lasharp@n...>
Date:  Sat Feb 17, 2001  7:16 pm
Subject:  RE: [vocalist] re: Healthy belt: general ideas


Barry wrote: " 2) A good technical book is Jan Sullivan's "The Phenomena of
the
Belt/Pop Voice" ISBN 0-913943-06-1"



I found this definitions at The Singing Voice website:

Belt --n. 1. [A style or technique of singing] in which the larynx is
slightly higher than in the classical voice, and the vocal cords are held
tightly together for a longer period of time. . . . The shape of the word
and how it is spoken is intrinsic to the sound. The sound seems [extremely]
forward [in "placement"] . . . but is not nasal. . . . The space inside the
mouth is not as large as in the classical technique. . . . [True] belt is
not chest voice nor an extension of chest voice into the higher register.
[Sullivan (1985), 16.] --v.t. 1. As used commonly, to sing (a song) loudly
and energetically.


Is this the same Sullivan you mention, Barry? And what do you think of this
definition?

Thanks for spending the time with us on this!

Laura Sharp





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