Half a Century of Research on Singing-Voice Registers: Knowledge and Mysteries
Résumé
We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. In this paper we will review the advances for half-a-century in voice science on the topic of singing-voice registers and what remains to be explored. We will address the following questions : - what tools have been used to assess voice registers in singing over the time ? What other tools would we dream of ? - what do we know and do not know about the underlying laryngeal mechanisms and vocal-fold related biomechanics ? - Do registers present specific vocal tract shapes and tuning actions ?The talk will cover the wide range of singing expressions, from classical to non-classical and world music