Every type of voice should be agile. Although the Allelujah by Mozart is called a coloratura song, it should be part of every singer’s repertoire, not necessarily for public performance, but as a required vocal exercise. It is a song that requires such control and vocal agility that many singers with low voices, accustomed to the heavier, slower type of singing, find it difficult to perform. But once such mastery is acquired, a singer may feel confident that his voice will obey his will, any time, anywhere, through any passage, however difficult.
There are no short cuts to accomplished singing. Instrumental musicians are apt to realize far more fully than singers the magnitude of the task before them at the outset of their careers. This is because they have an instrument which they must thoroughly master, and its very unfamiliarity at the beginning causes them to appreciate the problems before them.
But singers have only themselves to deal with and they are often inclined to overrate their own talents and intelligence. And after an all-too-short period of training, many singers are convinced of their ability to appear before an audience with success.
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