#vocal fach

[monotonous-minutia]

okay let's settle this once and for all

sopranos

mezzo-sopranos

altos

countertenors

tenors

baritones

basses

what is this divisive nonsense why do this how dare you force us to choose

Voting ended onMar 2, 2023

[opera-shitpost]

Get it? Because Wagnerians are known for being somewhere within the dramatic fach, but having a bigger/heavier voice! :D

Sorry.

[mazharking]

listen up i’m gonna tell you a little story! i am almost positive that i am a contralto but i need validation so i’ve searched far and wide and asked different people with different authority on music and none of them came to the conclusion i am a contralto which is fair! but there is one person i spoke to last year that made me lose my fucking mind and now that i remembered it i need to vent (i vented to like two people on whatsapp already and i’m still flabberghasted)

so we had an interaction that went like this

me: hi would you mind listening to a recording of me singing and telling me what voice type you think i have

them: yea sure

note that i did not mention my gender since i Know that alters the listener’s perception!

me: okay here’s the recording

them: you’re a lyric baritone

me: oh wow! so if i were a girl that would make me a contralto right

them: if you are a girl i’d have to relisten

them: lyric mezzo

me: ???

them: yea you just don’t sound masculine enough to be a contralto

from the same person who had called me not a tenor but a baritone before after listening to the same recording!!!!! so i sounded masculine enough to be a man but not masculine enough to be a contralto that’s fair

anyways that was my vent i still believe i’m a contralto even tho literally no one who knows anything about music agrees with me but i know what’s in my heart and i know what’s in my larynx kay bye

[mazharking]

common sense: maybe i should practice singing and pick a choir audition song from songs by contraltos

my music taste: baritone or mezzo it is bitch

[mazharking]

when you can’t sing high enough to do sing the primadonna parts but you can sing low enough for the uomo primo parts!!

[mazharking]

me, on a forum: hey guys can you listen to my voice and tell me what fach you think i belong to?

someone: you sound like a 14 year old boy, wait till your voice settles, but you sound like a tenor now

[mazharking]

me: oh nice i think i’m finally hitting those high notes without strain

hertz meter: ma’am you have left the lower fifth octave

[mazharking]

i read a vocal profile on nina simone and it said “more comfortable singing in 3rd than in 4th octave” and it felt so good because!!!!! me!!!! that’s me tooo!!!!!!