Finding Your Voice

[unzeugmatic]

If you want to get a sense of the self-involved arrogance of some practitioners of European classical vocal tradition, go browsing through YouTube for the various lessons on vocal technique people offer. I have no issue per se with anything that's being taught, and in fact most of it I'm finding useful and interesting (as somebody who spends a hell

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[unzeugmatic]

I hope it's clear that I didn't mean this to be a criticism of the group -- what I was trying to convey was how their CD (which I'm listening to a lot, it's the CD in my car and there's no reason to switch it out for a bit) made me think about very different approaches to singing the same songs. (The CD is all a cappella.)

After writing this I've listened some more to the CD (it's a CD that's compiled from two earlier CDs, so I think it covers a wide era), and I'm hearing more in the way of identifiable specific vocal character. It's just that my original response was, "Oh how pretty." Then, "Oh, how *pretty*" (in the sense that I think you use "refined". Always fun, though.

In their version of "Woad" there's a long-held descant line through the chorus, one singer just holding "Woaoaoaoaoaoaoad" throughout an entire phrase, and I could listen to that one little thing over and over and over. In fact, I have.

Rushing off a this moment, but I look forward to talking about this sort of thing when I see you next. It's so time for me to come back to SF.