I would take his word over mine (Since I am no expert and he is one hell of a countertenor) but truth be told, almost all countertenors that ive known personally were actually master baritones first and then trained to become countertenors.
I don't think there's any disagreement, he just said countertenors use mostly falsetto, whereas bass/bari use mostly chest voice. From my experience, basses generally have the largest and most controllable falsetto with the least training (though, with proper training, anyone can have a great falsetto register).
falsetto, i was told by a voice teacher, is more accurately called head voice, because the sound comes from the upper part of the larynx, which is supposedly located in the head not the neck.
however, anyone who sings like David Hurley can say whatever he likes. the rest of us can quibble over detail while masters like him make beautiful music.
may i recommend "Con amores, la mia madre" from the King's Singers' Chanson d'amour CD?
Switching to the upper part of your larynx is very important - female opera voices use almost only this register, male the chest one. Yet the "end" of your voice is always behind your nose - be it larynx or chets - only then your voice sounds.
The entire larynx is below the Hyoid Bone which is located at the base of the tongue, below the jawline. There is no part of the larynx in the head. The head, at least the nasal cavities and oral cavity, function as resonators only.
Early church music was single-line tenor. Then harmony was added with a 2nd, higher voice, "contra-tenor," sometimes a full-voice male alto.
A few e.g. Russell Oberlin & more usual falsetto countertenors e.g. Andreas Scholl, David Daniels are responding to the renewed interest in music for male altos & castrati.
what a load of rubbish! a countertenor is exactly what the man in the video describes! David Daniels has a baritone/tenor chest voice and used to sing tenor but couldn't get HIGH enough, so switched to countertenor so he could use his falsetto. If topogiorno's description were correct, how could Daniels sing countertenor if he couldn't even sing Tenor!!
he doesn't have too some of the most beautifully countertenors are basses and baritones, thought it is possible for to be a countertenor and be a tenor he just says when you falsetto ends you can fill in with some chest voice if it gets to low ( that is his technich, i know i spelled that wrong)
my technich is to get as high as i can and light before switching i am a male soprano ( reg-tenor 1 ) and if i want to sing and it goes a lil low for me i switch into head voice automatically i am just getting my head voice up there and exercising it ( right now it is at a 5F) there are many ways to sing
This information is erroneous. He is describing a tenor or barritone with a falsetto voice that they use to sing countertenor arias... A true countertenore/sopranista, has a natural range and timbre higher that the tenor even in his lower range.. see david daniels or michael maniaci on this web site.
I know there are different schools of thought about this from the so-called "experts". Just look and listen to this man. What he has to say about countertenors might just have some merit since he is one of the more prolific countertenors of the past several years. The group he sings in isn't too shabby either, you think?
I would take his word over mine (Since I am no expert and he is one hell of a countertenor) but truth be told, almost all countertenors that ive known personally were actually master baritones first and then trained to become countertenors.
AndrewDeJoseph 3 years ago 3
I don't think there's any disagreement, he just said countertenors use mostly falsetto, whereas bass/bari use mostly chest voice. From my experience, basses generally have the largest and most controllable falsetto with the least training (though, with proper training, anyone can have a great falsetto register).
laser8389 2 years ago
@laser8389 Hi,From what i understand i have a low type of countertenor voice would that be because i'm really a bass?
countertenorNZ 2 months ago
Sei lá, meu, mas os caras cantam muito, pelo amor de Deus.
lansanova 4 years ago
Falsariooooooo!!!!!!!! Mentirosooooooooo!!!!!!
winipu 4 years ago
renewed interest in... castrati? yikes!
falsetto, i was told by a voice teacher, is more accurately called head voice, because the sound comes from the upper part of the larynx, which is supposedly located in the head not the neck.
however, anyone who sings like David Hurley can say whatever he likes. the rest of us can quibble over detail while masters like him make beautiful music.
may i recommend "Con amores, la mia madre" from the King's Singers' Chanson d'amour CD?
desideratusxsum 5 years ago
Switching to the upper part of your larynx is very important - female opera voices use almost only this register, male the chest one. Yet the "end" of your voice is always behind your nose - be it larynx or chets - only then your voice sounds.
lukoza1 4 years ago
The entire larynx is below the Hyoid Bone which is located at the base of the tongue, below the jawline. There is no part of the larynx in the head. The head, at least the nasal cavities and oral cavity, function as resonators only.
philwrestler 4 years ago 3
hey!
head voice has nothing to do with falsetto!
the first one: very hard to achieve
the second one mostly anyone can do it... when men are doing a falsetto they are using just half of the vocal chord to achieve the high notes
palmib2007 2 years ago 3
Early church music was single-line tenor. Then harmony was added with a 2nd, higher voice, "contra-tenor," sometimes a full-voice male alto.
A few e.g. Russell Oberlin & more usual falsetto countertenors e.g. Andreas Scholl, David Daniels are responding to the renewed interest in music for male altos & castrati.
sfkcbf 5 years ago
what a load of rubbish! a countertenor is exactly what the man in the video describes! David Daniels has a baritone/tenor chest voice and used to sing tenor but couldn't get HIGH enough, so switched to countertenor so he could use his falsetto. If topogiorno's description were correct, how could Daniels sing countertenor if he couldn't even sing Tenor!!
benjo643 5 years ago 2
he doesn't have too some of the most beautifully countertenors are basses and baritones, thought it is possible for to be a countertenor and be a tenor he just says when you falsetto ends you can fill in with some chest voice if it gets to low ( that is his technich, i know i spelled that wrong)
CoryM2008 4 years ago
my technich is to get as high as i can and light before switching i am a male soprano ( reg-tenor 1 ) and if i want to sing and it goes a lil low for me i switch into head voice automatically i am just getting my head voice up there and exercising it ( right now it is at a 5F) there are many ways to sing
CoryM2008 4 years ago
This information is erroneous. He is describing a tenor or barritone with a falsetto voice that they use to sing countertenor arias... A true countertenore/sopranista, has a natural range and timbre higher that the tenor even in his lower range.. see david daniels or michael maniaci on this web site.
topogiorno1980 5 years ago
I know there are different schools of thought about this from the so-called "experts". Just look and listen to this man. What he has to say about countertenors might just have some merit since he is one of the more prolific countertenors of the past several years. The group he sings in isn't too shabby either, you think?
randyjsing 4 years ago 10
david daniels IS a falsettist.
eustazio 3 years ago