Dear Deborah and List:
I'm not sure why baritones are in your title - perhaps you meant
basses - I don't see any shortage of baritones!
--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, "Deborah"
<singsoprano2003@y...> wrote:
> in my experience the majority of
> songs from the pop culture which most young people listen to and
sing
> along to are often quite low in register. Often this seems to be
> where alot of young people use their voices.
I assume you are referring to the pop range being low for females.
That is the perspective of a classical female singer. For males, the
pop range is high. In fact, the ranges for either pop females or
males are pretty close.
Here's a link that addresses this subject:
http://webpages.charter.net/toma/mixedbarbershop/2c.gsrange.html
While the author is no academic, and I would take the 500 hz figure
with a grain of salt, I think he is essentially correct in saying
that pop vocal music, which is usually closer to speech, seems
generally most pleasing in a narrower range of pitches than other
vocal music.
Cheers,
Michael Gordon
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