In a message dated 3/12/2001 12:50:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
toda@m... writes:
toda@m... writes:
<<
That's the problem, though. That's not technical enough, and our popular
notions of what falsetto is make things needlessly complex. There is a
technical description of what falsetto is, and it is not what most solo CTs
are using nowadays. By definition, falsetto cannot have a singer's formant,
and therefore cannot carry. James Bowman has a very large voice - his sound
could not possibly be the result of flaccid vocal cords. There is no
breathiness to his sound at all, and he has excellent dynamic
control. Clearly, he has full closure, and the cords are providing a great
deal of resistance to the airflow. >>
but tako, male singers can produce breathy chest voice that has no singer's
formant. do you call that falsetto as well? i call what daniels sings in
'falsetto'. what you call falsetto, i think is just a weak, breathy version
of what i call falsetto. to compare daniels singing the C above middle C to
pavarotti singing it (or gedda, araiza, wunderlich, etc) is not even close.
even daniels distinguishes between tenor head voice and what he wishes had a
better name than falsetto (changing what it is called is not going to change
anyone's attitude towards it, positive or negative).
mike
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