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From:  bjjocelyn@p...
Date:  Sun May 26, 2002  4:39 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] pitch


So, Mike,
What's wrong with singers who
"look as if they're trying to see over a fence on the highest pitches" ?

I mean, as long as they're not trying to look at the top of a ladder, with
their eyeballs ridiculously squinting upwards.

See, I perfectly got your point about irrationally linking pitch to height,
but don't you think a little focus as you're nearing the naturally brittler
extremities of your range won't harm? That is, mentally clinging to a dot in
the distance in order to keep a line taut that would otherwise be likely to
sag?

But then, if giving direction or perspective to your vocal line can prove
helpful, who cares if it's horizontally, laterally, vertically, or any
other way? For spaniards and italians for instance, a "high"-pitched voice
may be called a "thin" voice (voz fina, voce fina), the measure beeing
"thickness" or "breadth" there. Is it closer to what a true "right
conception" of pitch should be?
Unfortunately, once you've stated "pitch is pitch, period", any supposedly
convenient visual correspondance to this purely acoustic phenomenon can't be
but arbitrary, "misconception"-like.

So at the end of the day, what's the fuss about the ordinary pitch/height
connexion standing in the way?

Just wondering,

Bart






  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date  
19227 Re: pitchthomas mark montgomery   Thu  5/30/2002  
19228 Re: to Mr. Montgomery. i.e. legatoEdgewoodVoiceStudio   Thu  5/30/2002  

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