What's the difference between China traditional opera singing and national bel canto singing?

Singing is the main part of traditional opera music. It can refer to the general name of singing methods (such as ballad style and qupai style) that need to be interspersed with tunes in China's traditional operas. In heavy metal music, there are common pop songs, low and growling voices of death metal or black metal, etc.

Bel canto: A singing method in which the throat is kept in the inspiratory position, and the exhaled airflow blows the vocal cords, so that the open vocal cavity can sing completely and evenly.

2, the way of performance

The main characteristics of Bel Canto, which is different from other singing methods, can be summarized in one sentence, that is, Bel Canto is a mixed vocal area singing method. As mentioned earlier, Bel Canto is a combination of true and false sounds in sound, and it is a mixture of true and false sounds according to the needs of pitch ratio. From the point of view of singing, it is to mobilize all available singing cavities in singing. This kind of singing itself has its own unique "taste" and unique acoustic characteristics.

Opera singing art has also formed its own unique style and professional skills in the long-term development. Pay attention to the relationship between words and sounds, sounds and feelings in singing. This has produced a series of singing methods and techniques. Singing generally includes vocalization, enunciation, breathing and decorative singing. Its purpose is to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play. Singing with emotion is the highest aesthetic standard of singing art.

3. Breathe and use

Breathing is very important in Bel Canto, which is different from natural breathing. In view of the importance of breathing, Bel Canto believes that breathing is the driving force of vocalization and its breath is "coherent". Thoracoabdominal breathing was used. It is necessary to inhale deeply and manipulate the diaphragm together to make the breath impact the glottis according to the needs of singing.

Opera also attaches importance to the important role of breath in singing, requiring breath to sink into the abdomen, that is, to breathe through the diaphragm. In folk songs, few people consciously use deep breathing, and most of them use chest breathing because of a certain style.

Extended data:

(1) Consciously use breath to make sounds, and gradually control breathing through the diaphragm.

(2) form the correct position of the larynx, liberate the larynx, stabilize the larynx, make the vocal cord movement closely cooperate with breathing, and make appropriate adjustments to make it have ideal sound effects when singing notes with different strengths, such as high, medium, low and strong.

(3) Training the method of adjusting the vocal cavity, and appropriately expanding the vocal organs with adjustable shapes-pharyngeal cavity, oral cavity and laryngeal cavity. The head cavity and chest cavity whose shapes cannot be adjusted can increase the volume and beautify the timbre through the adjustment and application of the cavity.

(4) Breathing, larynx (vocal cords) and vocal organs work closely together to coordinate vocalization, so as to achieve the unity of vocal areas, full of strength and timbre changes.

In addition, you should choose the right vowels when practicing your voice. Vocal music practice was originally based on natural sound area, and gradually widened to the range of midrange. On the basis of practicing alto, we should further expand the range to achieve the sound characteristics and range that the voice should have.