MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contralto, Sine Wave, Aria
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How to type a voice: complete range how high and how low you can sing, timbre color and quality. Fundamental: tessitura preferred part of range. What you like to sing in: weight. Oval rooms are better for acoustic (hearing) than rectangular. Spinto middle, heavy weight, can sing lyric, domingo. Affects latin (affectuse) - start sentences with i feel . How you feel when listening to a voice. Musicality basic music ability to understand the demands of music. Timbre: pavarotti timbre changes, lighter, rides with the music, has charisma. Aretha franklin good voice but is not good at opera. Domingo tenor, heavier, powerful, pushes voice, does not have charisma. Ricondita armonia aria in tosca which domingo sings. Has an aria nessun dorma which pavarotti sings. It is more suited for a dramatic voice but pavarotti makes it work, who is a big lyric tenor.
