Lloyd Hanson wrote:
> ...Thus the recognizable head voice tone. Even if
> the singer purposefully dampens many of the partials in the head
> voice to give the tone a more intimate, personal quality, it is still
> head voice if the vocal folds are functioning as described at the
> beginning of this paragraph. A knowing teacher or singer can tell
> the difference from the sound alone. Fischer-Diskau used this
> technique a lot. Many tenors do. It is not falsetto.
Just for clarification, is this the sound of most English lyric tenors in
the G4+ region as opposed to Pavarotti's climactic high Cs (which I think
of as an extension of his chest production)? Thanks...
Tako
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