A Probe Into Tenor's Training Skills In Bel Canto

In the art of singing, a tenor' s possessing and mastering matured skill of alt is the important and necessary qualification of his singing approach the state of being matured and perfect. The singing of the outstanding tenors in China and foreign countries is the embodiment of the skill character. The elegant voice , the clear words and the very penetrating alt of the singers really make the audience excited and lost in the wonderful music. However, the tenor vocality beginners generally know little about this skill, and extravagant hope to find a shortcut to the alt; they know little about the instructive theories and have many misunderstandings about the training of the alt skill. With the aborative instruction of the tutors and combining the research experience over ten years, I probe into the task of solving the problem of tenors' difficulty in singing alt. First, based on the research of vocality art and vocalization, I discuss how to set up reasonable aesthetics concept on tenor's voice, then expatiate on the characteristics,of the tenor's voice in bel canto and the theoretic significance of setting up reasonable sound aesthetics concept. This essay is mainly on the way and key point of constructing tenor' s voice, especially solving the core problem of alt skill. The essay argues that the construction of tenor' s voice is based on the mediant and undertone sections; finding the phonate source, practice step by step, surrounding the point , string and side of the voice; train the students using suitable vowels according to the students with different characteristics ; emphasizing that ten essential words are the golden key to solution of the core problem in the "closing " method. Finally combining the brim intercross theory , discuss some commonly used ways to guide the students to solve the obstacle of difficulty in singing alt...