Dear Les and Vocalisters:
I hear Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's soft high range singing on Die Schone Mullerin as a kind of Feigned Voice rather than a falsetto. I hear a high larynx phonation method which is characteristic of this kind of vocal production. It is effective for his uses but I do not feel it is necessary and I do not hear it as falsetto although I would have no objections to falsetto over feigned voice. Both are phonation/resonance approaches to singing that I do not think are particularly valid for a classical singing style. I also question if this vocal production would be well heard in the concert hall; fine for recording but maybe only in the recording studio.
-- Lloyd W. Hanson
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