Lloyd wrote:
> COMMENT: The latest issue of the NATS Journal of Singing > (November/December 2000, Volume 57, No. 2) has an article by Stephen > F. Austin, a former contributor to this list, entitled Nasal > Resonance-Fact or Fiction? He provides research to prove that nasal > resonance removes the singer's formant and thereby reduces the "ring" > in the voice. He postulates that the rather new phenomenon of > teaching nasal resonance came from the "ma, me, mi, mo, mu" exercises > developed by the physician H. Holbrook Curtis who "reportedly helped > the tenor Jean de Reske regain his injured voice" through the use of > nasal resonance. "The famous de Reske promoted their work together, > and the rest is history." He also states unequivocally that nasal > resonance has never been promoted by the great Italian teachers of > the past but rather that they warned against its use. >
There's a text by John Nix, from Vocalist, in 1998, and available at www.chanteur.net under the title: "Contre l'utilisation pédagogique des consonnes nasales" that says the same about the singer's formant. BTW, there's a lot of good stuff there, including Mercedes' description of her 'agus'.
>If you > place a clean finger ...
Oh... it had to be clean...Too late! Well, it could always be worse.
Best regards,
Caio Rossi
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