Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...> wrote:
Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...> wrote:
> If a singer like Mariah Carey can
> growl out a baritone's low C and can also squeak out
> high notes that run all the way OFF the keyboard, she
> can sing five octaves. Note that the highest note
> ever recorded is the C above high C (an octave below
> the end of the keyboard)
Just for those who want stats: on Vision of Love, Carey sings from a
low tenor D to the top C# on the piano, which is just about 4 octaves.
Not gorgeous, ringing notes fit for the stage, but musical in their
context, IMO.
> A range of four octaves is not unusual, but certainly
> not very useful -- except when trying to impress non
> musically-trained fans. A range of five octaves has
> never been demonstrated on a recording, as far as I
> know.
I think there may be some opera-centricism here. :-) I have been
recorded in the context of "serious" new music producing notes from
the bottom E on the modern piano to the B above the "Queen of the
Night" F... over 5 and half octaves. Not useful for bel canto opera to
be sure, but awfully useful for some canonic works such as Peter
Maxwell Davies' "Eight Songs for a Mad King".
There is a clip of my producing an E1 here:
http://people.mills.edu/toda/sounds/truth_deep56k.rm
http://people.mills.edu/toda/sounds/truth_deep.wav
You won't hear the fundamental unless you have a sub-woofer on your
system, as most computer speakers don't render anything below 80Hz. An
E1 is around 33Hz. I'd recommend the full wav file if you've got the
bandwidth. I'll try to track down a bootleg of the piece where I
squawked up to the high B and post that too...
Tako
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