"> My approach to "marking" is to sing everything
above
> C5 an octave down. I do the same. Singing a
fully-supported pianissimo
is exhausting over a long period of time (mostly for
the body), and singing a breathy, "easy" pianissimo is
tiring to the voices -- although I know that some
people sing in what they call "half voice" to mark,
and claim that it spares the voice during a long
rehearsal. It's always made me wonder whether "full
voice" for those people is actually pushing."<<
I wonder the same, in a way! I sometimes do the "half
voice" thing, but my description of it is that I'm
singing with less "compression", or with less steam
behind the voice. I don't think that's the same as
"pushing", which I think of as using more compression
than the cords can take. (I'm a very loud dramatic
sop). My teacher HATES the word compression, but an
earlier teacher used it a lot. I also think of
compression as being one of the differences between
pop singers and opera singers, and the thing that
makes it possible to sing with enormous volume. I'm in
a bit of a rush right now, but I think I need to
articulate this better sometime for myself. Does
anyone else use the term "compression" in a positive
way, or have a better understanding of what I mean but
can't describe? :)
Cyndee
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