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Thread #13909   Message #228517
Posted By: GUEST,Chocolate Pi(back in MacOS)
15-May-00 - 10:13 PM
Thread Name: Help: How can you tell which voice you've got
Subject: RE: Help: How can you tell which voice you've got
I sing tenor much of the time; the drama teacher in junior high school loved me because, as a girl, I already had an adult voice while the boys were cracking all over the place, so I could play male roles; I did Mr. Bumble in Oliver, and various mummers roles, etc.
Sacred Harp (I keep coming back to this, just like my Humanities prof goes back to the Tokyo subway no matter what we discuss from Marx to Blake to Baudelaire, because he's in the East Asian Studies dept) has doubling of parts by male and female singers; men and women sing treble, ususally a octave apart, and tenor, where some women sing the octave above and some sing as written (and some, like me, switch back and forth). Usually bass is just men and isn't doubled, but alto is occasionaly doubled. I've sung treble, alto, and tenor, and much prefer tenor.


Chocolate Pi