On 22 Jul 2005 at 18:12, John Howell wrote: > Several writers have hinted at this, but let me say it straight out. > Male sopranos in renaissance music were NOT very often castrati (a > practice the church did not approve of, but did take advantage of), > and were not always boys at churches without choir schools. It > depended on the choir. And if modern voices can, for many singers, > open up the head range and sing comfortably in alto and soprano > ranges, so could rennaisance voices.
Well, you'll also note that soprano parts in the music of that period seldom goes much above the A on the first ledger line. And then there's the issue of clefs and transposition and variable pitch and chorton vs. kammerton. . . -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
