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From:  "Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
"Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
Date:  Mon Mar 26, 2001  6:23 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] The effect of Vowels on singing in the Passaggio


Mike and Vocalisters:

Listen to his (Wunderlich's) changes in vowel pronunciations,
particularly in "Die Schöne Müllerin", between when the same word is
sung in his passaggio area and when it is not. The changes are very
obvious.

Lloyd


>In a message dated 3/26/2001 1:01:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
>
><< Most of these vowel changes may
> be the result of his "Pfälzisches dialect" as you mention but I would
> be willing to bet that a substantial portion of these changes were
> taught and carefully learned. >>
>
>lloyd,
>
> if wunderlich were taught this rather than it being the result of his
>accent, he sure made it sound very natural. i think peter schreier betrays
>more of what your saying, particularly in that recording of strauss'
>'capriccio'.
>
>mike
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Lloyd W. Hanson
Professor of Voice, Vocal Pedagogy
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

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