The discussion of female high notes. falsetto vs. head, high vs. low
prompts these thoughts:
Though men have undoubtedly imposed many things on women throughout
history, quite a lot of the vagaries of fashion are of their own making, or
at least with their collusion: hemlines vary in much the same way that
styles of speech do, and, particularily in the modern West, the degree of
individual variation has almost upstaged the broad generality of fashion.
Men are not immune to such changes of fashion either.
On the subject of female falsetto, already rehearsed on this list a few
months ago: I wonder if a powerful singer like Jane Eaglen, who sometimes
produces a falsetto-like timbre in higher notes, is simply forcing her
properly adducted vocal chords further apart because of her enormous breath
pressure, so that the timbre becomes falsetto even while the arytenoids are
squished together. john
John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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