Yoshikazu mera biography of william
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Exactly what do all these terms mean anyway: singers using mostly falsetto, or mostly modal voice?
Russell Oberlin was often quoted about this distinction for the term "countertenor" (although apparently he later felt uncomfortable about his earlier quote, in which the idea was that only the modal countertenor was a true countertenor). See this book for a discussion: of the two early figures of the countertenor revival, Alfred Deller was a falsettist, whereas Russell Oberlin was a modal countertenor. The author (Ravens) notes that modal countertenors have gone almost extinct, although he also seems to imply that that was the older usage, and speculates that rising human height may be at fault for this – now going far enough according to him to make modal tenors rarer too. He does not mention any modal countertenors today. Yoshikazu Mera might be one, judging by this biography:
If that's accurate, then that's an interesting shift i
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