Discover Your Voice: Chapter 6
Emily Cottam
Chapter Summary: Voice classification usually depends on size/range/color/flexibility/character/technique for register adjustment/stamina. It can be dangerous/limiting to classify your voice into a particular group--it can change as you grow and develop as an artist. When teaching children to sing, have them only sing in a light voice; pressing it too early can cause sometimes unrepairable damage. According to Brown, there is no such thing as tone-deafness, or “monotone.” To teach tonal awareness, he would have a student say a word and sustain it and find the same pitch on the keyboard so the student is aware of the “difference between high and low tones.”
Key Concepts: Sing with your own voice, uninhibited by the limiting power of voice classification, which is subjective and can change. Teaching children to sing should be gentle and light because they are still physically developing.
Key Terms: tessitura, monotone
Making Connections: I think it’s healthy for me to not classify myself into a particular voice group; I remember being in choir and thinking I was only an alto singer, but as I studied with my first voice teacher, I discovered that I could learn to sing all parts. Because of this, I see no reason why in the future I can’t learn to sing in different “voice classes.”
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