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From:  "Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
"Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
Date:  Thu Mar 29, 2001  4:01 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Mozart in falsetto/ how styles change (was: grumpy mozartians)


Judy:

Or perhaps you could recognize that the statement meant that castrati
could do what women could do, only better. There is nothing in the
statement the implies that women could not sing a tone with ring.


>In a message dated 3/27/01 3:41:38 PM, lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
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><<I am amazed that you interpolated my statement
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><< Even castrati were expected to sing with a
>penetrating ring to the voice that women singers of that day could
>only envy. >>
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>to mean that there were no female singers with ringing voice at the
>time of the castrati. I do not believe that nor have I ever said
>that. >>
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>I'm not trying to pick a fight, but that's what the above quoted sentence
>means, Lloyd!
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>If you say that they could only envy the ringing sound, you are in fact
>saying that women could not produce it --otherwise why would they be envious?
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>But thanks for clarifying what you actually meant to say.
>And I repeat, I thought that the rest of the post was excellent, as usual.
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>Judy ;-)
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Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011

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