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From:  Tako Oda <toda@m...>
Date:  Tue Jun 20, 2000  6:19 pm
Subject:  RE: [vocalist-temporary] pitch differences (was bach and basses)


> Wouldn't it make sense to call them tenors or baritones if they
> can do justice to those notes?

For me, it's much more about timbre than range. Most professional
sopranos could probably bludgeon their way through most mezzo rep and
vice versa in terms of notes...

> That goes both ways, to be sure. I remember seeing a "Vocal Method"
> book that said men shouldn't use the head register.....

The Estelle Liebling book? That passage held me back technically for
years when I was starting out!

> Then there was a rock or pop tune (in the late 50's) that contained
> the words "I can sing like a boy," (in a traditionally masculine
> range), "I can sing like a girl," (same voice, in falsetto an octave
> higher) "and I can sing like a frog." (same voice in strohbass, two
> octaves lower)

I love that song! I think the frog might have been inhaled vocalization
rather than strohbass, though...

-Tako



  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date Size
2564 Re: pitch differences (was bach and basses) Joel Figen   Tue  6/20/2000   2 KB
2565 Re: pitch differences (was bach and basses) Tako Oda   Tue  6/20/2000   2 KB
2567 Re: pitch differences (was bach and basses) John Alexander Blyth   Tue  6/20/2000   2 KB
2568 Re: pitch differences (was bach and basses) Jennifer   Tue  6/20/2000   2 KB

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