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From:  Sandra Charker <scharker@c...>
Date:  Sun Jan 26, 2003  2:44 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re:"messa di voce"


>If the light is pure then there will be plenty of charge in the battery.

<ROFL>

If you build it, they will come... what was "it" again?

I dunno why Tosi and Garcia called singing one-pitch sustained pp ff pp
"placing the voice". Maybe Italian meanings have shifted since 1723;
English has after all. In particular, I can't tell whether they were
referring to physical positioning of the larynx and other bits that make
the sound, or if they were referring to singers' sensations of what's
happening when they're singing "well". Like most technical singing terms,
this one was widely used long before anyone had an inside view of the vocal
tract in action and before singers could hear themselves as others heard
them. The technical language of singing is an attempt to teach people to
make sounds they couldn't hear using mechanisms that no one could see. No
wonder there's room for confusion.

After all, people talk about "building a voice" too. Does that mean you
have to have development approval before you learn to talk?

Sandra





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