In a message dated 12/03/2000 6:41:59 PM Central Standard Time, RALUCOB@a... writes:
<< think of how many singers only vocalize legato. do you ever hear many people vocalizing staccato? why not? is it so easy that it need not be practiced? how many singers vocalize in minor, for that matter? how many singers speak the text seperately as a character (and not as a vocal exercise)? >> Everyone in my studio vocalizes staccato and gets that down well before they try legato. Minor - depends. I like to try to take song excerpts for vocalises (especially if they have a combination of staccato/legato) and sometimes they are in minor, sometimes not. And as a character - I encourage it in their home practice but my students are mainly such beginners that I haven't had time to work it - hopefully before the Wisconsin School Music Assn Festival, I can start working that....
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"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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