- Title
- Helping the young soprano bring emotional truth to seventeenth - and eighteenth-century recitative through the use of speech mode
- Creator
- Allan, Christopher
- Relation
- National Early Music Association International Conference. Singing music from 1500 to 1900: Style, Technique, Knowledge, Assertion, Experiment. Proceedings of the National Early Music Association International Conference, in association with the University of York Music Department and the York Early Music Festival (York, UK 7-10 July, 2009)
- Relation
- http://www.york.ac.uk/music/conferences/nema/allan/
- Publisher
- University of York
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Is there a synergy between contemporary voice science and early music? Can the developing soprano be brought to a more emotionally true performance of 18th-Century recitative by using some of the precept of voice science, especially the use of the speech (modal) mode of the voice defined by researchers such as Jo Estill? In conservatories today much of the music that commencing undergraduate soprano will perform was composed in the 17th and 18th centuries, therefore it has great relevance to the vocal pedagogue and student alike. Much of the recitative found in the 18th century is within the range C4–E5. This falls directly in the speech mode range of the soprano voice. We also know that much of the dramatic and emotional content of a cantata or operatic work is contained in the recitative as the composer moves the singer towards the aria that follows. The developing soprano will often have difficulty establishing control over that range of the voice, especially if she has used falsetto quality in the past and has not been able to access the lower fourth from C4–F4. This can result in a colourless reading of recitative. This paper will describe a range of exercises developed to facilitate access of the full quality of the voice across the range, giving much needed vibrancy and emotional response to the performance.
- Subject
- soprano; voice science; recitative; early music
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057521
- Identifier
- uon:16198
- Language
- eng
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