Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Emma Heidenheim
1. Cry Quality and Owl are very similar, and compliment each other well. They
are both dark sounds well suited for intimate or thoughtful moments within
a song. They are not usually used throughout a whole song, but rather during
a beginning /ending phrase or a bridge. Both of these qualities are most often
used in older legit songs with long legato lines (but can also be used in newer
well; low subglottic pressure, high soft palate, thin folds, high larynx ect.
They both are also best used above the 1st gear change, but can obviously be
2. I chose Days and Days from Fun Home. In the last 32ish bars of the song I
used both Owl and Cry Quality. The music is marked Regal, Biting because
it is a very emotional part in the song, and the character, Helen, is an older
character. At this point in the song Helen is in crisis, and she is crying to her
daughter so Cry Quality works very well. The song is contemporary, but it is
3. I chose to compare the differences between Belt Quality and Mouse Quality.
The onsets are very different, belt is a lot of glottal onsets where as mouse is
whereas mouse is more of a light, operatic sound for legit rep. Belt is very
speech and twangy, which is very different to the legato style of mouse.
4. For a song that changes from mouse to belt I chose Oh Henry by Michael
Kooman. The 32 bar cut I chose begins in a very light, operatic sound and
then switches into a belt sound. In this 32 bar cut alone the sound switches
between belt and mouse 4 different times. I have marked the switches on the
sheet music attached. To make the switch I have to go from a very open
throat, with a very high vocal plane and thin vocal folds, to thick folds, high