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From:  "Caio Rossi" <caioross@z...>
"Caio Rossi" <caioross@z...>
Date:  Fri Dec 1, 2000  1:39 am
Subject:  TEACHING METHODS


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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