Dear Katherine and List,
Although I have never been a student of Cornelius Reid, I have found his rather encyclopedic "A Dictionary of Vocal Terminology" to be always instructive and stimulating. In that volume there is an eight-page article on "Falsetto" which I would recommend to all. Nowhere in the eight pages does he use the word "between" with reference to falsetto. His article, of course, is too long to quote in its entirety, but here is one short excerpt:
"Historically, falsetto tone quality had succeeded in gaining the attention of theorists as early as the fourteenth century, when [it] was referred to as the 'vox ficta.' In later centuries, owing to the rapid development of vocal skills and the popularity of the castrati, it was apparent that this mechanism was capable, when trained correctly, of taking on new dimensions. By joining it 'imperceptibly' to the chest register in a coordinate relationship, its quality could be modified, its range, flexibility and power increased, and its 'falseness' transformed into a thoroughly legitimate tone quality." (p. 113)
Reid's whole article is very much worth reading, even if you are skeptical about some of his pedagogical positions (which I am not.)
Carl Rogers
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