Calling all Lyrics! (Sopranos, that is) — Page 4

The other thing about being a soprano that I particularly enjoy is that we can develop into belters also... I'd like to see a mezzo/belter try to develop a lyric range... *evil grin*

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Used to have an okay belt, but it's sort of diminished since I stopped really working it. I have a nice mix and chest voice though.

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I fake belt! But my crazy voice teacher (I have 2, an awesome one and a crazy one) made me use my chest voice today. It got better, but it's still not great or even really very good.

I don't even want to go into singing as a career, even though I've kind of made it my life. It's too competitive and I basically know that I could never get a job.

Updated On: 5/23/14 at 01:12 AM

Aww, I agree with elevenprincess, that if they cast you, you couldn't have been TOO bad. On the bright side, I hope you got to wear that awesome hat!

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Well, we had a sever lack of talent in our school. In rehearsals I sang everything (besides the title song) an octave up, and it surprisingly worked well enough. But the day before, they decided that Dolly wouldn't sing high (which I understand), and so I was forced to go into belting mode. Scary!

But I did get to wear the hat. Several awesome hats, to be exact.

i'm only in high school too, butby the way things are going, my teacher and I are pretty sure that i'm a lyric.
i just met with a college counselor about music colleges, and I'm getting so exited! She listened to a tape of me and said that my Mozart arias were wonderful, so my teacher picked an aira from Lucia Silla, which i've never heard of before.

Also, I'm having some trouble finding an english art/classical song that I really like. Anyone have some suggestions?

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art songs... not from operas.

The Crucifixion by Samuel Barber is always good. It shows you can do modern music that's a little weird/different. It's the song I'm using for College auditions.

And I'm pretty excited, just got my audition CD's done to send to Cincinnatti, DePaul, Oberlin, and Manhattan.

Now... onto the applications.

Don't do Black Swan... that's one that I'm doing!! haha.

But if you really want to, I have to warn you, it's a BIG song. Very hard to master... I'm having problems with it, and I've been singing lyric for awhile... it's not terribly high (G, occasional A above high C), but it definitely stays up there for a long period of time, and maintaining that is hard.

Just my two cents.

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Yeah Cincinnati won't let undergrads do opera songs. I was pissed, because I hate doing the Crucifixion... and Fair Robin is the only English song I like.

and can we say that Michigan's application is a bitch???

Ah, that's awesome! Thanks!

Hi everyone, I actually have some questions. I just started taking voice lessons a few weeks ago, so I am new to the terminology used. First off, in voice lessons my teacher only seems to focus on my soprano. I want to to work on belting too. Does this seem unusual? Also, what is mix? I guessing it is a blend of the head and chest voices, but I don't know for sure. Do different techniques focus on different things? I believe I am learning classical technique. She is focusing on vowel sounds.

Back to more soprano talk, my voice teacher referred to me as a coloratura.In the threads, I've noticed terms such as lyric, dramatic, and such in reference to soprano. Would anyone care to break these down? I saw the definition for dramatic, but I don't quite understand it. Thanks for the advice!