Whistle register

The whistle register (also called " Flageolettregister " called ) is the highest register of the human voice. It is usually used to ( with audio frequency c3 or high C 1046.50 Hz) to produce sounds from around c'' '. These tones allow apart from no vibrato articulation and vocal differentiation more because the human ear is more capable on the basis of the few audible formants no spectral differentiation. Very few people can sing in this register.

Physiology

The physiology of Pfeifregisters is the least understood and researched register of the voice. It is believed that these tones are formed when the vocal cords are tensed and have a maximum closed except for a small opening remaining. The vocal cords do not vibrate or no, the sound is produced similar to the pipes with the mouth through the air turbulence behind the rest of the opening.

Use of Pfeifregisters

In European classical music, the whistle register finds its application in musical literature in many coloratura arias for soprano. It is sung to produce sounds from about the three-lined d ( d3). The best known example is the aria of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. This calls for some tones over c'' ' (c3 ), the highest is f ''' (f3 ), but also the arias of Konstanze and Blonde in The Abduction from the Seraglio use the whistle register. Similarly, the aria of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Bell Song of Lakmé, the head of Gepopo from György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and other roles use the highest peak tones of the female voice. In concert, Mozart has many of his concert arias composed using the female Pfeifstimme of which Popoli di Tessaglia is considered one of the most difficult.

Use of the Pfeifregisters over a period of several minutes, adversely affects the voice, and is usually not possible. Training the Pfeifregisters should not be more than 15 minutes a day.

Examples of the whistle register in the popular song are Betty Wright ( to g4 ), Mariah Carey ( gis4 ), Rachelle Ferrell and Chanté Moore (up DIS4 ) and Georgia Brown over layers of h2 to e4 to gis4 and gis5. Also of Minnie Riperton and Broadway musical star Kristin Chenoweth exist sound recordings, in which they play at least some notes in the whistle register. There are also some male singers who use this register, such as Sebastián Vilas of Argentina, Philip Bailey ( known among other things, by the band Earth, Wind and Fire), Noicola Sedda or Adam Lopez, who the Guinness Book Records for this is that he has produced the highest produced by a man sound: a cis5, which corresponds to the sound, which is placed at the first place on the last button on the 88-key piano. As part of a talk show he produced even a dIS5 (3rd place on the last button on the 88-key piano ).

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