Falsetto

The falsetto or head voice, or or in Italian - is a vocal technique using the registry as acute (aside from the voice of whistle ) - sometimes called or - is obtained by preventing the contraction of normal vocal cords. The term is mainly applied to singers male, in order to distinguish this type of voice broadcast technology opposite, more traditional, using the chest voice - or register to bosom - often regarded as culturally ^Music

In classical music , the singer using his falsetto is called countertenor or falsetto. This typology voice has long been used in secular music as well as sacred , the Middle Ages until the ^eighteenth century.

• At the birth of bel canto - the early ^seventeenth century - the falsetto were gradually competed by high-cons , the tenors and most importantly, barrows , and then eventually disappear at the classical period.

• During the ^nineteenth century , technology will almost completely deserted, with the exception of male employment comic theater - tenor food and low food - who sometimes use the falsetto - solely in order to accentuate the grotesque characters they embody, but never as a technique in itself.

• After an eclipse of almost two hundred years, this technique has been vocal to the fore by Alfred Deller in the mid- ^twentieth century , on the occasion of the rediscovery of the directory called " old ", that is to say , that covering the medieval music , the music of the Renaissance and Baroque music.

Traditional music

• The yodeling , vocal technique in the mountains of Switzerland and the Tyrol , whose main characteristic is to use alternating falsetto and chest voice, is a rapid succession of intervals vocalized highlighting the transition between the two registers.

Popular Music of the twentieth century

Several singers and popular music groups of the second half of the ^twentieth century , used a falsetto voice in their concerts or their albums : Steven Tyler of Aerosmith , Marvin Gaye , Michael Jackson , The-Dream , Janet Jackson , Queen , Elton John (before 1987), singers male doo-wop , Mathieu Chedid (M), Roy Orbison , the Bee Gees , Jimmy Somerville , The Beatles , Chris Martin of Coldplay , Sigur Rs , John Entwistle ( The Who ), Neil Young , Radiohead , Queens of the Stone Age ( Josh Homme ), Michel Polnareff , Daniel Bedingfield , Celine Dion , Lara Fabian , Mariah Carey , Christina Aguilera , Beyonce , Whitney Houston , Leona Lewis , Genesis , Tiny Tim , U2 , Prince , Vanessa Tesla , Beck , James Blunt , Sting , Muse , Mika , Brian Molko of Placebo , Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel on his latest album Humanoid , PJ Harvey , Bilal , Brian Wilson ( Beach Boys ), etc.. Number of groups in New Wave Of British Heavy Metal , such as Judas Priest and Power Metal , like Helloween , Angra , HammerFall , Alan Wlliam (Rubettes) etc.. also use this technique.

See also

Internal Links

• Singing
• Vocal Music
• Classical music
• Traditional Music
• Register
• Range
• Voices
• Chest voice
• Mixed Voices
• Voice whistle

External Links

• www.counter-tenor.net

Vocabulary of the Opera

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