The Proportion Of Mixed Voices In Vocal And Features Of Soprano

The famous singer Cecilia Bartoli once mentioned in an interview that there areboth male and female figures in Mozart’s musical opera Le Nozze di Figaro, such asFigaro, Suzanne, Cherubino, Barbarella, and you would see soprano, soprano,soprano....on the script and the full score. Maybe the age of Cherubino is13years old, Suzanne a litlle more than20years, the countess over30years, Marrchellina60, and theyare all sopranos. However, this is not right. You can not assign the same tone to them.Different musical roles are supposed to have different tones.The unique feature of vocal music art as opposed to instrumental music art is theexpression and playing of music through plural tones. From the instinctive singing inancient labor activities, to the rites and music guided by religions, further to today’svocal music form featuring harmony and beauty as the aesthetic standards, the vocalmusic art has gone through several thousand years and has developed a series ofscientific vocal music theories and voice part positioning.The first chapter mainly introduces the origin of Chinese and foreign vocal musicwas the needs of life and communication which derived from our life and laboractivities both of which are related to the witchcraft culture and religion. The modernvocal music has formed its independent discipline and mature artistic expressionalforms because of the use of scientific sound mixing techniques. This chapter alsointroduces the aesthetics covering the origin of ancient vocal music to its currentsituation.The second chapter mainly summarizes the voice part categorization and thefeatures of different voice parts in the German vocal music system which is recognizedas the most scientific vocal music system in the world, and showcases the similaritiesand differences of the frequently used gamuts of voice parts and voice switch points inthe forms of charts. The proportion of the head voice in the mixture is adjusted when themale voice part is above gamut f2, and the tones of the treble area, the middle register,and the low register are respectively adjusted and unified according to the mixing ratiosof the female voice part in all gamuts. The emphasis is the detailed categorization ofsoprano’s voice parts and their features.The third chapter firstly sorts out the methods of human voice part categorizationaccording to the physiological conditions of the human body using medical verification and ordinary audio sense. It analyzes the vocal cord vibration theory, presents the limitsof voice part categorization on vocal music performance according to the features oftenor’s voice part singing, and further presents the idea of first solving thesound-making techniques and then breaking through the limits of physiologicalcategorization of voice parts through the voice mixing ratios.The fourth chapter probes the application of the mixed singing methods and theimpact of mixing ratio adjustment on soprano’s voice part singing, and analyzes itssinging style characteristics by applying the biologic vocal cord structure and thephysical vibration theory, and further analyzes the aesthetic features of soprano’s voiceparts based on these singing characteristics.The fifth chapter showcases three classical arias in Verdi’s The Lady of theCamellias: the singing of the aria including colorature, lyric and drama elements byMaria Callas, the playing of three phases, e.g. Baroque, classicism and romanticism, byCecilia Bartoli, and on this basis proves the argument that the voice mixing ratios shallbe adjusted in soprano’s voice part and female voice part singings, so that tones couldbe switched to realize more possibilities.The sixth chapter is the summary of the whole article.This article shows the summaries and explorations made by the author on the roadof learning vocal music. These categorizations and summaries comprise the knowledgethread of learning over years. The argument is to find the direction for continueddevelopment and efforts by encountering and solving problems on the road of learningvocal music. I hope I could walk farther away in this journey.