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From:  buzzcen@a...
buzzcen@a...
Date:  Fri Oct 27, 2000  6:12 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Opera Singing


In a message dated 10/26/00 5:04:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:

<< Consonants can be the vehicle that tends to break up this "vowel
line" but if they are done correctly, they will not. But consonants
do not make up the musical line. The musical line is produced by a
series of connected vowels, not by a series of connected consonants,
regardless of how liquid or phonated those consonants might be
produced.
>>


I don't think this is the real point Lloyd. The problem is not the lack of
consonants but the mushiness of the vowels which make them unintelligible.

Randy Buescher

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