What is American Voice

American voice singing is a singing style produced in the 17th century in Italy. With a beautiful tone, rich in change; vocal distinction strict, pay attention to the harmony and unity of the sound area; vocal method of science, the volume of plasticity; gas sound consistent, sound and sound connection smooth and even for its characteristics. This singing style has a great influence on the whole world. Nowadays, the American singing style is a singing style based on the traditional European vocal technique, especially the Italian vocal technique.

Under the influence of the Renaissance, opera was gradually produced, and American vocal singing was gradually perfected. Peregrine wrote Italy's earliest opera, Daphne, and in 1600 wrote the opera Judicia. Composers created operas that broke away from previous singing styles. Opera requires a combination of aria and declamation; it requires a combination of chorus and repetition; declamation requires sufficient breath support, and it requires bright, beautiful voices that can penetrate the symphony and be delivered to the audience's ears. The emergence of opera has perfected American singing.

The American vocal singing method was introduced into our country after the May Fourth Movement, and gradually took root and sprouted on the ancient land of our country. American vocal singing on China's vocal art is undoubtedly played a huge role in promoting. In recent years, China's young players have won awards in international vocal competitions, which further shows that the artistic level of using American vocal singing method to interpret and express foreign vocal works has reached a considerable level. But how to make Chinese vocal music go global? How to combine the advantages of American vocal singing with our vocal art and language characteristics to form a Chinese school of vocal music, there is still a lot of hard and meticulous work to be done, and it requires unremitting efforts from the majority of professional and amateur vocalists.

Bel canto is the Italian term for American vocal singing, which was translated as "American vocal singing" when it was first introduced in China, and the people who studied it were collectively known as the "American school of vocal singing". The true meaning of the word "bel canto" in Italian is "perfect singing". If we analyze it carefully, there is a discrepancy between the meaning of "American singing" and "perfect singing

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. "Perfect singing" does not only include the voice, it should also include the content of the singing and the singer's demeanor, instrumentation, temperament and so on. The term "beautiful singing" is easily understood to mean singing with a "beautiful voice" as the name suggests. Understanding "perfect singing" as "beautiful voice", in the words of Mr. Tian Yubin, this kind of incomplete and inaccurate understanding makes our vocal music take some detours in the development. To a large extent, the American vocal singing method is understood as only emphasizing the voice, the voice is above everything, while ignoring other aspects of learning. Therefore, a lot of people learning American vocal singing, in the study and actual singing, either heavy sound not heavy words, or heavy sound not heavy feelings, and even some singers are not only not heavy words and feelings, even the voice is also a pretense, singing a song is very touching.

Based on the above reasons, some people in the vocal world have advocated that the "American singing method" be changed to "American singing method". Its purpose is also to accurately recognize the meaning of the American singing method, in order to avoid deviations in the understanding of the practice of 佧莂莂莂莂莂. In fact, "song" and "sound" cannot be equated. "Sound" is the "carrier" of "song", but it never reflects the content of "song". In the "American voice singing" on the title has been agreed upon in the case, and then go to make a fuss over the name, is of no practical significance. We can extend the "American voice singing" this customary title, but the key is how to make the American voice singing and our singing language combination, so that singers can sing songs in foreign languages, but also can sing Chinese songs.

The use of good American voice singing, but also should know what the American voice singing method includes the actual content and principles. Kino. Mr. Geno. Becky in the lecture about the American voice singing a series of ideas and discussion, by Mr. Tian Yubin summarized the following six aspects:

(1) the American voice singing there is a division of voice; (2) the American voice singing requirements of the unity of the vocal range; (3) the American voice singing requirements of vowel consistency, spitting clear; (4) the American voice singing requirements of the voice coherence; (5) the American voice singing requirements of a good musical training;

The American voice singing requirements of good musical training.

(6) American voice singing requires the voice and emotion.

The above six points are the important content of the American voice singing, can also be said to be six important principles. The reason why it is called principles, because people who learn American vocal singing must strictly abide by, and is indispensable, otherwise it is likely to be incomplete and imperfect American vocal singing.