In a message dated 3/11/2002 2:17:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
> First, may I ask that you get rid of the term "model". It is a term
> developed by voice scientists to describe the average speaking voice
> range and has little to do with the singing voice because, in
> singing, the voice is used with greater intensity than in normal
> speech, with greater time extension of the vowels, and with a pitch
> range that is significantly larger. Some singing voice scientists
> used the term model when it was first introduced (Vennard , for one)
> but the trend has been to avoid its use when speaking of the singing
> voice.
>
lloyd,
you have just given me even more reason to use it. the voice we
speak with is not a different voice from the one we sing with. singing and
talking are not even different usages, they are different extremes (great, at
times) of the same usage.
mike
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