Male and female singing voices. Modern "Farinelli" (ending) Castration is fashionable

It is not a secret for anyone that in the current realities of show business, talent and vocal abilities of artists often move into the background, giving way to a shocking imagine. Today we are bitterly looking at the stars of the left era, realizing that such, unfortunately, no longer do. Or a story still can repeat?

The voice is a kind of audible kiss of the soul, breaking into the material world. No matter what challenge at the voice, the main thing is his sincerity. It is thanks to the vocal and charisma singer fans fall in love with them again and again.

We made our own list of the most outstanding and strong male votes of our time, having heard that, you never confuse this performer with anyone.

Teo Khatchkraft.

Our first hollow hero is Teo Hatchkraft, who, by the way, today celebrates its 33rd birthday. The young man most of us is known as the vocalist of the British team Hurts. Saying himself for the first time in 2009 with a low-budget clip on the Wonderful Life composition, guys immediately captured the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. To this day, they remain one of the most recognizable British groups in the world, not least due to the vocals of Theo.

Freddie Mercury

Freddie and Montserrat Caballe / Photo: @OfficialQueenMusic

We could simply write this name without explanation and it would be enough. Musician, composer, outstanding vocalist - all this is about the main driving force Queen groups. As the legendary Paul McCartney said once said:

"All members of the group talented musicians, but the first thing you hear in their music is a voice. Queen is Mercury. "

We will not argue with the legendary bitle, just listen to this music again.

Dave Gan.

Incredibly sensual voice Dave Gaan also deserved mentioned on our list. Once at Olympus Glory in the early 80s, this guy still did not lose his youthful zador and slaughter charisma. We are confident that everyone who ever was at Depeche Mode concerts will agree with us.

Wang the first solo work of a musician from his debut album Paper Monsters - Dirty Sticky Floors.

George Michael

Fortune's favorite, he preferred to give more than to take. It could hardly be found in the musical world of the artist, whose voice was so strongly worried about the heart. Alas, 2016 became fatal for George, and after such stars, like David Bowie and Prince, he left this world. But the music remained. At the moment, this is the only consolation for millions of fans.

Dimash Kudibergen

The youngest hero of our list, has already managed to become a star not only in native Kazakhstan, but also far beyond. The vocal range of the artist is striking by its strength and melody, and, of course, we could not not note the striking modesty and the diligence of Kazakhstan Nightingale. Indeed, when we talk about Dimashe, we understand that this is a rare case when external 100% corresponds to internal.

Phil Collins

Fame as a member of Genesis, Collins is also widely known as a stunning solo artist with a characteristic recognizable voice. Among his awards - 8 Grammy, 2 "Golden Globes", 6 Brit Awards, Oscar, Disney Legend award, 6 awards from the British Academy of Composers and Authors, including International Prize"For achievements. He also received his star on the "Hollywood Walk of Glory" in 1999, was introduced in the "Hall of Fame of Song Authors" in 2003 and the Hall of Glory Rock and Roll as a member of the group Genesis in 2010. In a word - legend!

All singing voices are divided into women's, male and children. The main women's voices are soprano, mezzo-soprano and counterfeitand the most common men's voices - tenor, baritone and bass.

All the sounds that can be felt or played on a musical instrument. high, medium and low. Musicians when they talk about height of sounds, use the term "register", implying whole groups of high, medium or low sounds.

In the global sense, women's voices sing the sounds of a high or "top" register, children's voices - the sounds of the register of the average, and the men's sounds of a low or "lower" register. But this is true only in part, in fact everything is much more interesting. Inside each of the groups of votes and even within the range of each individual voice, there is also a division into a high, medium and low register.

So, for example, a high male voice is tenor, Middle Bariton, and low - bass. Or, another example, the singers have the highest voice - soprano, the middle voice of vocalists is mezzo-soprano, and low - contralto. To finally assimilate the division of male and female, well, at the same time both children's voices for high and low, this sign will help you:

If we talk about registers of any one vote, then each of them has low sounds and high. For example, tenor sings low breast sounds, and high fake sounds, not affordable bass or baritone.

Women's singing voices

So, the main types of female singing votes are soprano, mezzo-soprano and contralto. They differ primarily by the range, as well as timbar. The timbre properties can be attributed, for example, such as transparency, lightness, or, on the contrary, saturation, voting force.

Soprano - Female the highest singing voice, its usual range - two octaves (entire first and second octave). In the opera performances, the parties of the main characters are often performed by singers with such a voice. If speak about artistic images, the best of all the high voice characterizes a young girl or some fantastic character (for example, Fairy).

Soprano in the nature of the sound is divided into lyric and dramatic "You yourself can easily imagine that the party's party is very gentle and the girl is strongly passionate, can not fulfill the same performer. If the voice with ease copes with fast passages and fioriths in its high register, then such a soprano called coloratur.

Contralto - It has already been said that this is the lowest of female votes, moreover, very beautiful, velvety, besides, is very rare (there are no contralto in some opera theaters). The singer with such a voice in the operations is often entrusted by the party of teenage boys.

Below is the sign, in which examples of opera parties are called, which often perform certain women's singing voices:

Let's listen to how female singing voices sound. For you - three video examples:

Soprano. Night Queen Aria from the Opera "Magic Flute" Mozart performed by Bella Rudenko

Mezzo-soprano. Habanner from the opera "Carmen" Bizeta performed by the famous singer - Elena Exena

Contralto. Aria Ratmir from the Opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" Glinka performed by Elizabeth Antonova.

Male singing voices

The main male voices of only three are tenor, bass and baritone. Tenor Of these, the highest, its high-altitude range - notes of small and first octave. By analogy with the timbre of soprano, performers who have this timbre are divided into tenors of dramatic and tenor lyrical. In addition, sometimes they mention such a kind of singers as "Characteristic" tenor. "His character" is attached to some federal effect - for example, silverness or rattling. Characteristic tenor is simply indispensable where it is required to create an image of a gray-haired old man or some singers.

Baritone - This voice is distinguished by its softness, dense and velvet of sound. The range of sounds that the baritone can sing is within the large octave of the first octave. Performers with such timbre are often charged with courageous parties of the characters operas of the heroic or patriotic plan, however, the softness of the voice allows you to disclose and lovingly lyrical images.

Bass - The lowest voice, can sing sounds from Fa Large Octave to the first one. Basa are different: some rolling, "buzzing", "bell", other hard and very "graphic". Accordingly, the party characters for bass are distinguished by a variety: it is heroic, and "fatherly", and ascetic, and even comic images.

Probably, you can find out what kind of male singing voices is the most low? it bass-Profundew, sometimes singers with such a voice also call octavistamiSince they "take" low notes from counter-testes. By the way, we have not mentioned about the highest male voice - this is tenor-altino. or counterThat completely calmly sings almost feminine voice and with ease reaches high music of the second octave.

As in the previous case, male singing voices with examples of their opera batches are displayed in the table:

Now listen, what is the sound of men's singing votes. There are three more video examples for you.

Tenor. The Song of the Indian Guest from the Opera "Sadko" Roman Corsakov performed by David Gloorus.

Baritone. Romance Gliera "Sweet Solovushko sweetly", sings Leonid Saint

Bass. The Aria of Prince Igor from the opera Borodin "Prince Igor" was written in the original for Bariton, but in this case it sings one of the best Basins XXVEK - Alexander Pirogov.

The working range of a voting vote of a professionally trained vocalist is usually two octaves, sometimes, however, singers and singers have much more opportunities. In order for you to be well oriented in Tests when choosing notes for classes, I suggest you to get acquainted with a drawing, clearly demonstrating the allowable ranges for each of the votes:

Before the conclusion I want to please you with another sign, with the help of which you can get acquainted with vocalists with one way or another voice challenge. It is necessary so that you can independently find and listen even more audio examples of the sound of male and female singing votes:

That's all! We talked about what voices of singers and singers were dealt with the basics of their classification, the size of the ranges, the expressive capabilities of the timbres, and also listened examples of the sound of the votes of famous vocalists. If you liked the material, share it on your page in contact or in your Twitter tape. To do this, under the article there are special buttons. Successes!

Men singing in women's votes, at all times caused unhealthy interest in the public. In the XVII I. XVIII centuries Many unfortunate Italian boys tried to keep a high voice. Then there was a ban on female singing in the temples, and I wanted to hear beautiful voices ...

According to some reports, at that time, about 4,000 children and adolescents were subjected annually on incision for seed codes, and thanks to this simple action, the ligaments were not thickened, the voice stopped "breaking". Castra, by the way, were required not only for temples - Italian singers were not allowed to appear on the stage until the end of the XVIII century. Almost all the opera composers of the Barocco era wrote in their works a batch for castration.

Castra is fashionable

Competition in a professional environment was huge, but the result justified expectations: success accompanied men with an angelic voice not only on a professional, but also a personal field. Women adored to communicate with Kstuts, it was considered fashionable, and among other things, the lady received a kind of bonus - from the castration could not be pregnant. By the way, so far some mistakenly believe that castration automatically turned the man in the impotent, but this is not the case: they were only not capable of reproductive activities. The most famous castrat of all times and peoples was Farinelli. He made his debut in Rome in 1722. His gentle and mild voice led the listeners delight.

In 1870, the joy of the Catholic parishioners, on the one hand, and loving women - on the other hand, ended: the practice of castration was counted the barbaric and operation banned. There was no and popularity of castrators: in the XIX century there were already difficult for them to find on the opera scene. The last castrated sacrament - Alessandro Makes, who consisted of a singers in the Sistine Chapel, died in 1922.

Confused with a woman

It was possible not to deprive the number of Italian youth of the era of enlightenment of their offspring, because at that time there were male sranches, Oleg Ryabets argue. "And these singers are also called counterpertures, from the point of view of physiology and there are absolutely normal people."

So far, neither scientists nor the vocalists themselves can come to a common opinion regarding the nature of counterfeit. Some believe that this is just a strong Falletet 1, others - that this is a full-fledged voice with a good range.

To the question of what happened with his voice, Oleg Ryabets is responsible for: "I, as you hear, I'm not talking to you with a female voice, that is, it is obvious that the mutation still happened. We are talking about the quality of sound. I understand well than possessing. Indeed, a voice is not like anyone. Do not think that you have to cultivate your own dissimilarity, just keep nature. And I studied at the conservatory as a female soprano, and fortunately, I was going to meet. "

In the Kiev conservatory, Oleg really went towards, but be a counterper in our country, especially in soviet timesIt was not easy: "and questions, and bewilderment, and laughter, and confused with a woman. It was psychologically hard, but we were given to music with all our being. " Saying "We", Oleg Ryabets, in mind himself and Eric Kurmanganiyev 2. Both both are the most vivid representatives of the counterfeitors of their generation.

Mad Ilyich

It is mistaken to assume that counterperson perform women's roles and run around the stage in the dress. It happens, of course, that, but infrequently. A few years ago, Oleg Ryabets struck musical America, fulfilling the party Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Solger Opere "Nude Revolution". "Indeed, I performed Lenin's party," said Oleg. - This opera was written specifically for me. There are so-called Kitchen theater in New York. They celebrated their 25th anniversary and put this insane plot with Illichi. Stunning, talented music of Solger captured me, and I worked with enthusiasm on this project. It was only strange to make Lenin to be made and pull on all this strange clothes. But I had to get born in the role not inherent to me. "

The repertoire for men-soprano is not really so little. German, Italian music, Early Opera Mozart - You can sing everything. But in Russia, interest in this phenomenon is small. "Probably, this is due to some uncertainty, partly even with cultural moments," says the singer. - You see, in Russia a man singing in a female voice seems strange ... "

In the West, the other situation, there is interest and professional training. "In Italy, the truth is not very fond of counterfeitors. Probably for a sharp sound ... Modern Western counterferators in the bulk - well-made "computer" voices. They are all too perfect and do not enthusiastically. I was admired Kurmangaliyev: spontaneousness in a voice, performed, a unique timbre. There is no such thing and there was no one. The voice is the timbre, it is sound. If this is not, then why all these technical capabilities. Let a better woman sing. And make it much better. "

Oleg Ryabets says for goodbye says: "Maybe they exist so far, these castrates. Someone said me that in Italy and now there is ... still do ... "

Oleg Ryabets was born in 1967 in Kiev. He sang in the choir "bell", then in the choir of boys at the Kiev male chapel named after L. Revutsky. He studied at the Kiev State Conservatory at Professor K. Radchenko, at the State Classic Academy. Maimonide, Professor V. Chachava, was trained at Professor Z. Dolukhanova. Diena edition called Vocalist "One of the five of this kind of votes in the world, whose mutation period was safely passed ..." Ryabets performed at the Opera Halls of Lyon and Hamburg, Riga and Paris, in the Royal Houses of England, in the prestigious halls of Japan. Starred in documentary film "Farinelli. Show Must GO ON! " Oleg Ryabets has a rare on the timbre and height of counterfeit. The record of his voice is stored in the British national sound archive next to the unique recording of the last castration of the XX century A. Mauresci. At the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Prince of Edinburgh, his Royal Highness Prince Philip awarded the singer title "Mr. Soprano".

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1 Falcette is a very high sound, usually a male voice, a kind of timbre.
2 Eric (Salim-Meruryrt) Kurmangaliyev (1959-2007) is an outstanding counterper. Participant of the most prestigious international festivals. Among the fans of his talent were Svyatoslav Richter and Pierre Cardin.

Modern "Pharynelli" is now presented on an operating table, but in conservatory, and is called quite otherwise - counter-control. The counterfeit is a male voice, in height equal to female contralto, mezzo-soprano or soprano, but in sound differing from female votes due to differences in the structure of the male and female voice apparatus.
In contrast to castrators, the voice of the counterfeit has absolutely natural origin: after the age mutation of the voice apparatus, such singers retain the ability to sing soprano or alt, and, in most cases, it is not related to any hormonal problems or sexual orientation.

Popular about counterators

At first glance, this is the easiest way to explain what a counterper is, a person who has never heard such a vote. However, it should be noted that, firstly, in fact, this statement is incorrect: the voice of a man, no matter how high it, will always be on the fact of a male voice and will always sound different from female due to differences in the structure of female and male voice apparatus; Secondly, such a formulation incorrectly focuses the listeners - traditionally consider the high singing voice of the prerogative of women, they often draw conclusions about the fever and some physical inferiority of vocalists-counterfeit. Based on these considerations, from the use of the wording "A man singing with a female voice" should be refused.

Continor \u003d Castra?

Many, having heard the singing of the counterfeit for the first time, take singers for castration, believing that only a castration can sing so high. It's a delusion. A fanker register of voice, due to the use of which an adult and physiologically full-fledged man can publish high sounds, there are all men without exception, and the ability to sing in this register in the overwhelming majority of cases is the result of the development of congenital vocal skins.

Many fans of counterfeitors are convinced that such voices are unique and found extremely rarely, to which skeptics often object to about this: "Yes, it's just Falcette - he has every man, every man can sing so much, and there is nothing special and unique in it. " Undoubtedly, each man has a fanker register of votes. However, it is worth considering the following:
Far from every man in principle there are abilities to sing;
Far from every vocalist, the fancing register has qualities that allow it to adapt it to execute a certain repertoire in a particular manner (we recall that in modern meaning Counterter is a professional academic vocalist);
Not every vocalist has a desire to sing mainly in the fancing register, to develop it, learn to sing Fallete professionally.
Alfred Deller voiced the following observation in one of his interviews: at singers who would like to learn to sing a counterfeit, often not to this abilities, and those who have these abilities do not want to develop them, because they consider such a manner of singing for women. In addition, today, counterators are professionally in demand to a much lesser extent than the owners of more "traditional" male voices. In particular, in domestic musical culture there were no phenomena, such an Italian tradition of saft singing or traditions of fancing singing in England and Germany (Handel wrote 21 Opera for counterfeit, Mozart - several works for Castrata Senzino, and Bernstine wrote for the same votes , and Monteverdi. Previously, they did not put the "counterper", but put "soprano". But the parties are men's!), As a result, there are no parties for men's alt and soprano in the works of Russian composers, as well as there are no techniques for learning such singers, equally Like interest in such votes and music that was written for them in a professional musical environment. This is the main reasons for the notorious rarity and the uniqueness of modern counterfeitors.

The repertoire of counterperson is most often based on the music of the Baroque era, the time of the rapid take-off of European vocal performing arts.

Here are some names: Javier Medina, Michael Maniaci, Jorge Cano, Aris Christofellis, Radu Marian, Jörg Waschinski, Ghio Nannini.
One of the best is PAUL ESSWOOD (Paul Esswood).
British counterfeit Michael Chanps has an incredibly neat voice with a completely special challenge.
The name of the German Johen Kovalsky stands mansion. For many years, he has a title of stellar counterture, whose CDs are diverted by unprecedented for classical music by circulations.

According to famous historical factsIn Russia, the existence of counterfeitors did not suspect until the end of the 80s of the twentieth century, and all over the world, the singing of men, from nature with such high voices, was initially perceived as pseudo-resistant castrats. By the way, among the opera singers, a counterper is rare. Russia has a little more than 20 vocalists who have similar over sufficiency. Common for all modern counterfeits is their growing popularity. Increasingly, they become the decoration of concerts, including concerts of pop stars.

Russian famous counterators: Evgeny Argyshev, Oleg Remensky, Yuri Borisov, Nikolai Gladskaya, Alexander Gorbatenko, Evgeny Zhuravkin, Konstantin Zbanychuk, Yaroslav, Igor Zhzchak, Vyacheslav Kagan-Paley, Grigory Konason, Artem Kokutko, Eric Kurmangaliev, Yuri Minenko, Evgeny Munko , Igor'retnev, Oleg Ryabets, Oleg Usov, Baghdasar Khachikyan, Vasily Khoroshev, Nikolai Shilinsev, Rustam Yavaev.

A little about some of them

Eric Salimovich Kurmangaliev(Kaz. Yerіk Slіmұli ұұrmanғaliev, December 31, 1959, city of Kulsary Guriev region, Kazakhstan - November 13, 2007, Moscow, Russia) - Opera singer (counterattor) and actor, owner of a unique voice. According to some data, the first counterfeit in the USSR. In 2005, in Riga participated in the Gala concert of five counterfeit, on the basis of which the documentary film "Farinelli. Show Must GO ON "with the participation of Eric Kurmangaliyev.

Oleg Casperit has unique vocal data (4 octaves) - from baritone male notes to counterfeit (female soprano).

Oleg Ryabets. Diena edition called Vocalist "One of the five of this kind of votes in the world, whose mutation period was safely passed ..." Ryabets performed at the Opera Halls of Lyon and Hamburg, Riga and Paris, in the Royal Houses of England, in the prestigious halls of Japan. Starred in the documentary film "Farinelli. Show Must GO ON! " Oleg Ryabets has a rare on the timbre and height of counterfeit. The record of his voice is stored in the British national sound archive next to the unique recording of the last castration of the XX century A. Mauresci. At the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Prince of Edinburgh, his Royal Highness Prince Philip awarded the singer title "Mr. Soprano".

Oleg Rezinsky. It has a truly unique voice: its range - three octaves (from baritone to soprano). In the West, it has been called it no other than several years as the "Russian Miracle". He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (class of Professor Viktor Yushmanova), for the first time for her 148-year-old history (open in 1862) becoming a graduate who had a diploma-corancher diploma. When he sang at St. Petersburg Opera. There was a whole controversy in the press on the topic - "Can I use such voices in the opera?".

Nikolay Gladskaya It has such a unique voice voice, which is compared with the Great Pharinlli. Experts prophesy to Nicholas Gladskaya Great Future.