Greypins@a... wrote:
> what i don't understand is, if tenors can go higher than F above middle > C, without having to resort to falsetto, why do women feel they have to (and > yes, i do call what classical females sing in 'falsetto' because, that's what > i think it is)? is it because that is the style or, is it just easier to > sing that way? female pop singers do not do this.
Mike, I have to respectfully disagree with you. You may choose to call the way a woman sings unsupported tone in her head voice "falsetto", but it most definitely is nothing like the male falsetto. It's an unsupported low-resonance head tone, that is similar to the male falsetto in that the singer can do nothing with it. But I think the tone you call the female falsetto is instead comparable to the unsupported, low-resonance, "mouthy" sound that a tenor might make in the main tenor tessitura - sort of like the way most choral (untrained) tenors sing. And the way most choral, untrained, sopranos sing. It is not falsetto.
I think the sound in my voice that may be comparable to the male falsetto is the sound I make at the very bottom of my range, D natural, D# or C natural below middle C. It's a sound that feels to me (and sounds inside my head) like the sound one makes when blowing over the top of an empty 6-1/2 ounce Coca Cola bottle. I can make the tone, but there's no way I could ever do anything other than make the tone. Can't make it louder, can't make it softer, can't sing it any other way than the way it comes out. And I suppose it's possible that the female "whistle" register is like the male falsetto, but I've never been able to do whistle register, so I can't say from my own experience.
Peggy
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