In a message dated 3/23/2001 8:41:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, toda@m...
writes:
<< I'm not gonna flame ya :-) To defend Mozart, though, my guess is
that he wrote for a different kind of tenor than the modern tenor.
(he was probably writing for specific singers, too) I think the upper
range had a lot of lightness to it. Now *I'm* gonna get flamed, but I
believe tenors sang everything above G4 in what everyone seems to
call "falsetto" (I call it light head voice, but whatever. In order
to make that blend with the rest of the chest tones, tenors probably
lightened things up starting as early as Eb4 so the switch to
"falsetto" wouldn't be noticeable. >>
tako,
do you think the kind of counter-tenor you are (one that uses both modal
and 'falsetto') is probably closer to the tenor of mozart's day than today's
tenor? if not, what are the differences?
mike
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