Journal article
The Flemingo Stance: Is Operatic Voice Production a Style or an Acoustic Requirement?
Journal of singing, Vol.75(2), pp.171-173
11/01/2018
Abstract
When explaining the difference between an opera singer and a singer of other genres, the chief distinction to make is the absence of amplification for opera singers. The acoustic demands of opera are a primary reason that the college degree accrediting agency, the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), considers a baccalaureate degree in voice performance, or classical voice, only a pre-opera degree. The operatically trained instruments needs more time to mature, with perhps the exception of the lightest soprano voice categories. In contrast, NASM considers a baccalaureate degree in music theater sufficient to develop an entry-level music theater performer. At the undergraduate level, it is often not yet evident whether a student's voice will develop enough to have a career in opera. Rather than explaining operatic sound production as a musical and vocal style to beginning vocalists, it can be discussed as a vocal fitness and versatility requirement for unamplified singing. In teaching singing today, the different approaches to diction in opera and contemporary styles, respectively, should be addressed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Flemingo Stance: Is Operatic Voice Production a Style or an Acoustic Requirement?
- Creators
- Ingo TitzeRachelle FlemingRenée Fleming
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of singing, Vol.75(2), pp.171-173
- Publisher
- National Association of Teachers of Singing
- ISSN
- 1086-7732
- eISSN
- 2769-4046
- Number of pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984719564502771
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