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Singer's palette“This trembling, ringing sound had a strange effect on all of us ... This first sound was followed by another, harder and more drawn out, but still, apparently, trembling like a string, when, suddenly ringing under a strong finger, it vibrates last, quickly dying hesitation ... "Turgenev will use the words" ringing "," ringing "," ringing "many times, describing the singing of Yashka Turk in the story" Singers ". Is this accidental? Was it only auditory perception that guided the author of The Hunter's Notes?

Ask any person who has attended a concert of a big singer: "What is his voice?" And you will hear in response: "sonorous", "silver". What is it - "silver" of the voice?

Science answered this question only in the second half of our century. And it turned out that the sound of a human voice is characterized not only by the frequency of the note that the singer intones. Like the strings of keyboards or plucked instruments, which vibrate their entire length, giving the main tone, and parts that create overtones at other frequencies, the vocalist's voice has an equally complex frequency spectrum, or, in other words, overtone composition. And the "silver" in the voice can be measured as a percentage of the entire volume of the voice. It turned out that it has quite definite frequency characteristics (2600-3200 hertz), that it can finally be "cut out" from the voice, drowning out other overtones, listened separately, and it sounds like a nightingale trill ...

Singer's paletteFor example, when the recordings of F. Chaliapin's voice were “dissected”, it turned out that the high, “flight” frequencies accounted for about thirty-seven percent of the entire frequency spectrum of the great singer’s voice. Roughly the same ratio was found among Caruso, Battistini and other prominent vocalists.

But the most important thing that was established by scientists is the advantages that a high percentage of "silver" in his voice gives the singer.

Imagine that in a small room you are listening to two singers with the same voice type. When singing the first of them, it seems to you that now your eardrums will burst - such is the strength of this voice. And the other singer does not have such a strong voice, but he sings easily and loudly. And suddenly imagine that, as if by magic, this experiment is transferred to the stage of an opera house with a very large stage and hall. An orchestra is playing, a performance is underway. And you are amazed to hear that the sonorous voice of the second singer is heard as well as in the room, and the thunderous voice of the first singer has almost "drowned" in the sound of the orchestra. What happened?

What happened is that these singers are distinguished by the presence of certain “silvery” frequencies in their timbre, which, in addition to beauty, enable the voice to overcome a large space, to successfully compete with the powerful sound of the orchestra. And scientists called this quality of voice flight. It is now known that nature plays a significant role in the presence of this factor in a singer, but nevertheless it lends itself to development, is one of the main criteria of professionalism.

Singer's paletteBut why has nature given such "penetration" to overtones with a frequency of 2600-3200 vibrations per second? The secret is quite simple ... It turns out that our ear is designed in such a way that it is most sensitive to sounds of this particular frequency ...

Therefore, as the old Italian masters of bel canto used to say, one should sing using not all the power, the entire “capital” of the voice, but “the percentages of the capital”. Mastery percentages.

Truly not by number, but by skill!

N. Lazarev


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