Caio wrote:
>I think the question should be: doe they share any characteristics with >operatic non-SLS singers?
Indeed it should, Caio, but I'm a nice guy!
Actually, this is what interests me. I don't buy the argument that there is just one 'vocal technique', good for all weathers, seasons and types of music, and that the difference between singing, say, opera and cante jondo is simply one of style. I think that within opera one finds singers whose employ very different, often opposing techniques. I think that even among singers of the same voice type performing the same repertoire one finds examples of opposing techniques.
Of course, many schools of vocal technique share ideas. An example might be that the voice should be produced without effort. Probing often reveals different definitions what is, and what is not effort. Even if the different schools could agree on a definition of 'effort', a quick trawl through some of folk musics of the world will turn up a couple where a little (or a lot) of the effort in voice production is felt to add to the spice and force of the song.
I also declare a personal interest. Though by no means an expert, some of what the SLS people say they do when they sing rings a bell with me. I suspect I do it too, or something very like it, yet neither my voice nor my singing has much in common with that of Rodney Gilfrey. So I'm curious.
Regards / vriendelijke groeten
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-----Original Message----- From: Caio Rossi [mailto:caioross@z...] Sent: 04 July 2000 15:07 To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Re: Seth Riggs, Speech Level Singing,Fu ll Resume and Artists.
Laurence wrote:
> In Mary-Beth's list of Seth Rigg's successes the opera singers were: > > >OPERA, Selected students: > >Donald Ray Albert, Bass Bariton > >Angela Maria Blasi-Lyric Soprano, Kammersangerin* > >Rodney Gilfrey, Lyric Baritone > >Thomas McKinney, Lyric Baritone* > >Eduardo Villa, Tenor* > >James Wagner, Tenor* > > The only one of these six whose singing I know is Rodney Gilfrey. What are > the others like? What characteristics do they share? Do they share any > characteristics with the non-operatic SLS singers. > > Anybody know?
I think the question should be: doe they share any characteristics with operatic non-SLS singers?
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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