Continuing my series on relating 'Sound to the Anatomy'. I'm dealing with "Voice Qualities" for several weeks. 'Falsetto' this week.
1. Falsetto is the easiest quality of them all. It requires little effort to produce and functions best in the upper range of the voice.
2. In Falsetto, the arytenoid cartilages have flipped backwards, raising the back end of the vocal folds making them stretched & stiffened.
3. The action of stiffening & raising the vocal folds at the back, creating an angle to the airflow means that the muscles cannot contract.
4. In Falsetto, the sound is breathy because the vocal folds are not fully together. Stronger at higher pitches but much weaker at low pitches.
5. The larynx can be high or low in the throat & the thyroid cartilage may be tilted or not, with no particular emotion associated with it.
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