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Mix & Belting emissions compared
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Publisher: Independently Published (6 July 2019)
Language: Italian
Flexible Cover: 134 pages
Hi my name is Francesca Iaccarino I am here to speak and write about the wonderful world called voice.
Return to the category of curious, fans and hungry for this fascinating world.
This leads me to travel, listen, read and try to meet as many roads as many roads in the world of vocal research and in particular in the song sung.
Speaking and writing of singing, methods, emissions, vocal techniques, terminology, perceptions (and everything that can be enclosed within this huge fascinating circle) lives in a complex and admirable audacity that is often moved by the need to give shape to what in singing is expressed in an intangible dimension, but which really exists.
It may happen that during this exploration trip we venture into terms, philosophies and attitudes to singing, very different from each other, and sometimes, the various arguments and theses, enter into contrast in a clear way with each other.
Thus begins to hover in the air that questioning sense that tries to establish itself somewhere, but which feeds even more hunger for research and knowledge, and which activates the loop of: you never stop learning
In my personal thought I believe that the true sense that lives at the basis of curiosity is then a very simple concept:
singing in the slight happiness of being able to do it in a great balance of circumstances.
Easy no?
Concept that summarized like this, even makes me smile every time I reread it.
But let's go to the point and open the section "Voices to read" with a recently published book written mainly at 4 hands by Erika Biavati and Valentina Cavazzuti entitled Mix and Belting emissions compared: the voice in modern singing.
The first real strength of the book is the word " comparison " that opens the dances not only to an analysis of two different vocal emissions, but also to the sharing, exchange and collaboration of professionals and researchers in the vocal world such as: Franco Fussi, Daniele Raggi, Gregorio Bartolucci, Angelo Fernando Galeano, Elisa Ghetti, Eleonora Bruni and Lisa Popeil.
And to be added in the midst of this Pot pouri of phoniatrics, posturologists, teachers, researchers, psychologists and engineers, in the queue at the book we also have the opinion of professional singers and singing teachers who describe the sensations they feel when they sing in Belting or in mix .
And what do you want more?
It is a book with attention to detail (from the organization in chapters to the choice of the colors used to talk about the two emissions) which fulfills the desire for understanding in a very simple and discursive way.
There are drawings, stroboscopies, spectrograms, which help and argue the best to argue the research that is presented.
There is a glossary that helps you better understand what is meant by some terms and concepts, and a guide to listening, (based on their experience) drawn up with a list of great voices in the music scene and attached minutage to define the Various sounds and attribute to him the type of emission performed, also contemplating the possibility of error from the moment when in order to have an absolute certainty between one mechanism and another, a stroboscopic examination in real time would be needed.
In short, a beautiful reading that aims to give clarity and expose the research that Erika Biavati and Valentina Cavazzuti have undertaken, not forgetting how great the subjective sense of what is the perception of each of us is, when we sing.
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