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Reddit mentions of Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing (Limelight)
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- Limelight Editions
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| Height | 8.21 Inches |
| Length | 5.51 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | July 2004 |
| Weight | 1.04940036712 Pounds |
| Width | 0.84 Inches |
A few things:
-Try not to differentiate between choral and solo singing. Healthy singing is healthy singing. Make that your focus. In my ensembles, I tell students not to be "choral singers," rather, intelligent soloists.
-Voice lessons are the best way to dramatically improve your solo voice, and therefore your "choral" voice. Your teacher will provide you with many exercises to improve your voice. Practice these daily.
-Scales are excellent to improve your technique, especially when trying to master going through your second passagio. Record yourself, assess, and redo.
-Get the following two books:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Singers-Singing-Interviews-Technique/dp/0879100257 (Insight on singing from great opera singers of the past. No, they don't talk about choral technique, but it's a great way to hear MANY different ways different singers achieve vocal beauty. Try out what you read, and decide if it works for you or not. That's the beauty of voices - every one is totally different)
http://www.amazon.com/Solutions-Singers-Tools-Performers-Teachers/dp/0195160053 (Great practical book. Once again, healthy singing is healthy singing, doesn't matter if it's choral or not. Be ready to have to look up a bunch of physiological terms. Amazing resource.)
Good luck!
The vocal cords do use a set of muscles to come together and to coordinate and on higher notes they do require more control to keep the cords together when that much air is going through them, but most of the muscle control should be sub-conscious and should be teased out by correct support and good mental imagery. There is almost no conscious effort on controlling muscles in the throat to help with singing other then to relax them.
In a Book called "Great Singers on Great Singing" There is an interview in it where one of the people says that every singer in their learning of the voice will go through a period of excessive tension. You have to know how far to take it and to do that you have to be ready to experience and memorize what is too much and too little.