Dear Isabelle and Vocalisters:
The first AH vowel (File) is usually described as the Italian AH and, in speech it is brighter than the typical American AH vowel. However, many Italian singers use a variety of AH vowels depending on where in their vocal range they are singing. Pavarotti is an excellent example of this. Sometimes the differences in these forms of the AH vowel are are described as the Italian AH with cover. Not incorrect, just less accurate. We are blessed in English in that we have all of the forms of the AH vowel as part of our language and we can simply decide which to use to accomplish the vocal needs that these various forms of this vowel can provide.
PS. With all of my imagination and manipulation and years of experience, I am completely unable to make any form of the UH vowel sound forward or upper such that it will sound like the AH vowel in "File" without greatly distorting my vocal tract and creating strong amounts of tension. Have you learned to sing with an accommodation of the vocal tract that is this different?
Lloyd
> > > File >> > Father >> > Shout >> > Shun > >Extremely interesting. The first is forward >(correctly placed, in my vocal lexicon), the second is >"normal" American AH, while the last two are backward. > For me. > >Actually, the first one replicates the sound that >happens in my mouth when I think of a forward, upper >"UH" sound. So I guess I do have a rather more >forward concept of UH than most people. > >I take it that this AH vowel ("File") is the more >Italianate sound? Both of my Italian diction books go >out of their way to say that all vowels in Italian are >brighter and more forward than their American >counterparts. > >Isabelle B. > >===== >Isabelle Bracamonte >San Francisco, CA >ibracamonte@y... > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
-- Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA Professor of Voice, Pedagogy School of Performing Arts Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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