About the singers voices classification

Abstract

Within the scope of classical vocal music of European origin, the existence of particular vocal types differentiated from each other by some characteristic qualities is accepted. Vocal classification is the evaluation process that, based on certain criteria, allows to identify the type of voice of a singer and it has become a tool used by composers, arrangers, directors, teachers of singing, etc., and even used in other types of vocal expression that are not classical singing.
The article tries to address aspects normally not considered in the vocal classification papers and to summarize some classification criteria used by a group of authors selected for different reasons: for the importance and diffusion of their works in the field of professional voice in Argentina, as Is the case of Cristina Jackson Menaldi and Renato Segre-Susana Naidich, for being internationally referenced as Richard Miller, one of the most important pedagogues of the twentieth century and Ingo Titze, recognized for his research on the voice or also considered works due to its specificity as it happens with the thesis of Sandra Cotton dedicated to the Fach system, or with the book of Brenda Smith and Robert T. Sataloff, centered in the choral activity.