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TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE |
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chanical precision but without thoroughly understanding their underlying meaning and mood. Even after many repetitions of a song, a singer will often find it difficult to paraphrase a would-be expressive passage so as to communicate its essential thought content.
The student should also be reminded that quiet expressiveness in singing can be Just as conducive to good diction as bombastic or exaggerated utterance. The much derided crooning style of singing has as its main virtue that it combines maximum ease of tone production with maximum verbal intelligibility, a style that approximates the effortless expressiveness of casual conversation. Although this type of "conversational singing" has been widely condemned by teachers of "operatic singing'* because it is said to devitalize the voice, nevertheless the vocal student might benefit from a comparison of his own diction while he quietly sings a song in a conversational style, with his rendition of the same text when it is sung with full volume and declamatory vocal effects. Teaching methods that foster the cultivation of tonal ease combined with maximum intelligibility of diction from the very inception of vocal study can do much to Qihance the artistic stature of the student singer. |
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