Vocal Fry

[Randy Alexander]

I've heard it a lot in vocal and choral contexts, especially when I was at New England Conservatory, which was in the late 80's.

I'm in Wuzhishan hiking at the moment or I'd look it up, but it's probably in _Singing: the Mechanism & Technic_, which was (and maybe still is) the standard vocal technique textbook.

It was common for conductors to use the term (and technique) in warm-up exercises.  I'm sure I've used it myself a time or two but certainly not lately.

Best wishes to all from this rainforest mountain!

Randy



Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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>I've only heard the term used by speech pathologists.  I've done a lot
>of choral work, both singing and conducting, and I've never heard the
>term in a choral music context or from voice teachers.
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>On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Male country singers like to creak - vocal fry.  Where did the term vocal fry come from?
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