Alain,
This is exactly what I do, and this kind of vowel modification helps to
find good resonance in the middle and lower ranges too! I suppose the
imagery is of it being up behind the eyes for me. I call these vowels the
'dirty neighbours" of the basic Italian 5, and have become very good
friends with them! Pav is definitely on good terms with them too. john
At 12:48 AM 4/22/00 +0200, you wrote:
(...)
>Examples: For front vowels, singing [i] rather than [I], >>
>
>
>Funny : I have always done the opposite - [I] instead of [i].
>In fact, I close the too open vowels, but I open the too closed ones, all of
>them going ultimately toward some neutral vowel, close to the English one in
>"cut".
>
>Though I haven't read Hines' book, I understand Pavarotti's words as a
>narrowing of the resonance (toward a so-called "head voice") and not a
>closing of the vowels, though it also implies some kind of vowel
>modification. But the main idea, as I understand it, is to feel a narrower
>resonance going higher...
>
>- some say up the nose (or along the nose bone),
>
>- other visualize it as a "hook" through a very high (or felt as very high)
>velum (like when yawning), as if you were threading a needle... your voice
>being the thread and the velum the needle... and the velo-pharyngeal port
>the eye of the needle!
>
>- some direct this "sound thread" to the top of the skull, some at the "back
>of the top", a few others to the forehead...
>
>- along the same line, it may also be useful to visualize the sound as
>coming from a very tiny and high point outside of you, that you will
>enlarge, "resonance-wise" to the back of your mouth along the palate (and
>then up and finally forward again "behind and above the velum" or along the
>skull), and "breath-wise" to a wide and low diaphragm...
>
>All of this is highly unscientific, sorry!
>
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