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Acoustic Profiles of Tenor High C – Flores and Pavarotti
This post is a ‘by request’ from some of the other members, extending our vocal acoustics analysis to one of the most famous arias in the Tenor repertoire, ‘Pour Mon Ame’ from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera...
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Female Belt, Rock Pharyngeal and Operatic Tenor Voices
This article will compare the ‘belt voice’ production as used by female singers, the ‘robust head voice’ as used by Operatic tenors, and the male ‘Rock’ pharyngeal voice. These types of vocalism share...
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Distortion in Steven Tyler’s Scream?
This blog post is an extended version of a response to a question in The Modern Vocalist Forum from Mr. Steven Bradley, who wrote requesting some analysis of the scream as done by Steven Tyler in’I...
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Introduction to Resonance and Tone Quality Perception
A spectrograph is a picture that tells us about the frequency and intensity of the different parts of a sound. Here is one that contains two vocal sounds graphed, a ‘vocal hum’ in blue, and a ‘vocal...
View ArticleThe International Phonetic Alphabet
I’d like to introduce you to a tool that very valuable when discussing vowels for singing – the International Phonetic Alphabet, commonly called IPA. If you remember learning to read using phonics,...
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Vocal “Ring” and Operatic Tenor Top Notes
In the Opera world, one of the most exciting things to anticipate and hear is the brilliant, climactic high note of the tenor soloist in an aria. Not only does the voice carry well without...
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Vocal Terminology: “Messa di Voce”
Of all the dynamic effects used in singing, one of the most challenging to do elegantly is the “messa di voce” (pronounced by English speakers more-or-less like ‘mess ah dee voh chay’. It is the...
View ArticleVocal Terminology: Introduction and “Tessitura”
There is nothing quite so frustrating as to read an article or hear someone speak, and the originator uses a term, which is unfamiliar. I did that this week in The Modern Vocalist Forum, with the term...
View ArticleHow is the Diaphragm Used?
chuy67 wrote: [When I think about singing from the diaphragm,] I picture support as a balloon. It is filled with air and then you can push it with your hands and air comes out. The only problem is, I...
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Male Voice Passagio 101: Where is it and Why
In the male voice’s lower and mid ranges, what has been traditionally called the “chest voice”, the harmonic structure of the sung tone contains many partials harmonics, which fit nicely into the...
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