I agree. Even my beginning younger students come in speaking like women but
singing like helium-sniffers. I have a 12 year old niece who does not study
(yet!) but speaks in a velvety chest. As I did at that age, she manages to
mix up to an Eb,(2 above Middle C) then turns to air at that point upward. I
only know one woman who speaks in head voice. She's an opera singer/teacher
who subscribes to the bringing down the head voice to an extreme. She speaks
in a sort of Sprechstimme head voice all the time. I prefer my niece's sound
:0)
Laura Sharp
-----Original Message-----
From: DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT) [mailto:DCLARK@r...]
It has not been my experience, either as a singing teacher or as a speech
teacher, than most women speak in their upper register. I find just the
opposite to be true.
|\ Dr. Diane M. Clark, Assoc. Prof./Chair of Music Dept., Rhodes College
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