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| bio | website | mst.rwth-aachen.de |
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| location | Aachen, Germany | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | May 13 at 14:58 | |
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Mar 9 |
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Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum It sounds like you're referring more to the clarity of the sound than the "fullness" of it. Could you suggest a musical example of the contrast you're interested in exploring? |
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Mar 8 |
answered | Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum |
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Jan 22 |
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How do I develop a bass voice? OK. That's much more believable. On the other hand, you really don't need to go down to A1—there's only a handful of works that call for it! Practically, it sounds like you're a baritone. You shouldn't really need to get much lower than the Eb2—and even then, it's more a "bonus" than a necessity. |
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Jan 21 |
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How do I develop a bass voice? That's actually quite a high range—more or less a tenor range. But the bottom note is quite a lot higher than the bottom note for "typical male voices." |
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Jan 20 |
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How do I develop a bass voice? A bunch of questions here: Are you sure you have your ranges notated correctly? An adult male who can't comfortably sing below A3 (the A directly below middle C) can't really sing any of the standard male voice parts (at least not as they're normally written). What is your top note? Might you really be a tenor or countertenor instead? |
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Jan 14 |
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What is a baritenor? Seems to be. Every conductor seems to have his or her own opinion of where I should sing. (I've been asked to sing everything from bass II to tenor I in the last decade.) |
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Jan 14 |
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What is a baritenor? It's changed since those days, but in chest and head voice it's from F2 to Ab4, plus a falsetto range that goes from roughly F3 to F#5. My tessitura, though, is roughly Eb3 to F4. |
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Jan 14 |
answered | Is there a standard range for a baritone? What is it? |
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Jan 14 |
asked | What is a baritenor? |
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Jan 9 |
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Is that a hemiola or what? It could be three bars of 6/8 followed by a 3/4 bar. |
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Jan 9 |
answered | Is that a hemiola or what? |
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Jan 9 |
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How do I determine my vocal range? I think that range and tessitura are often confused. The tessitura is not given by the extremes, but by the interval where the singer should spend most of his or her time. A good singer can finesse a few low or high notes if needed, but a part whose tessitura doesn't match the singer's will be extremely tough to sing, even if the range is within the singer's compass. |
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Jan 9 |
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Placement of vocal soloists with orchestra Thanks for the answer. However, a few points: (1) My middle-school choir did four-part music--quite often, in fact! (2) I think you have the soloist disposition in the War Requiem backwards (remembering the photos I've seen). (3) I've noticed this phenomenon with certain works, and not others, in the same venue with the same forces. For instance, I've seen the BSO do the Verdi and Mozart Requiems and place the soloists out front, but not for the Missa Solemnis! |
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Jan 8 |
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The Swan of Tuonela: Sibelius, Wagner, and Smetana Corrected the title of the piece: it's "Tuonela," not "Tounela." |
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Jan 8 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Jan 8 |
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Notating tenor vocal parts with 8va G-clef in Sibelius 6 Changed "base" to "bass" and "descant" to "treble" (the standard name for the G-clef is the "treble" clef). |
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Jan 8 |
suggested | suggested edit on Notating tenor vocal parts with 8va G-clef in Sibelius 6 |
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Jan 8 |
suggested | suggested edit on The Swan of Tuonela: Sibelius, Wagner, and Smetana |
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Jan 8 |
answered | Is there a piece of music that “inaugurated” Beethoven's middle period, and thus the Romantic era? |
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Jan 5 |
awarded | Yearling |
