Sunday Feature: Mary King and the Anatomy of the Voice

[DracoM]

Utterly fascinating, particularly on latest diagnostic and curative procedures. Toby Spence story maybe we needed in more detail?

BUT, to my great surprise, no touch on the following:

1. How do we sing in tune? Link between brain / calibration of pitch etc / self-checking modification techniques to stay in tune / correct mistakes. Not a word.

2. Surely one of the more interesting phenomena in the singing field is the case of the boy's voice, 'the shift / break/change' in early puberty - what happens, what survives, why are some boys never able to sing full range ever again? why are some perfectly able to sing more or less immediately in their 'new ' voice? what determines whether a boy is tenor or bass or can sing / develop adult alto? Genetic?

MANY huge questions.

My guess is that a good number of Forum members will have excellent answers to these questions.

[DracoM]

Crumbs, did no-one else listen...!?

[doversoul1]

This was part of The Classical Voice: 15 June - 4 July.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/radio-3-the-classical-voice?lang=cy

I listened to the original and was somewhat frustrated but can’t remember about what. Despite that, I thought it was one of the best / most listenable programmes in the series.

[DracoM]

Aha! I thought I'd heard it before, but couldn't place when....thanks, doversoul.