mirko and tako,
i have noticed that there are quite a few pop singing males who sing
very high and stay there, who have baritonal speaking voices. i think of
jeff buckley as being more lyric baritone in classical thinking, than tenor.
(i find his approach to singing to be similar to scott walker, definitely
baritonal, and hermann prey.) i think it is the aesthetic that allows him
the ease he has with his high range. pop music allows for a varience in
timbre and those who have authored books on the subject (seth riggs, roger
love, mark baxter), seem to suggest that allowing for and planning on that
varience enables the singer to take advantage of more range than they would
singing classically.
because the classical singer attempts to have the whole range match in
timbre (paul plishka, for example, discusses his attempts to do so in jerome
hines' 'great singers on great singing'), the classical singer keeps himself
from accessing higher range that would definitely bring about a change in
timbre. in classical singing, women are less restricted, in that they are
allowed to use chest, mix and falsetto (go ahead, shoot me. i don't care.)
where men are only allowed mostly chest and a mix for the high notes. and i
think this is why, in classical singing, women are thought to have much wider
ranges than men.
removing the strictures of sounding like a 'fach', allows the singer
more freedom in range and, allows the singer to use more sounds that are
particular to his voice.
mike
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