What are the diffrent types of Tenor Singers? HELP

[Nathan_Halpert]

I have had 3 different vocal teachers and they each say I am rather a baritenor, dramatic tenor, or lyric tenor. What are the differences?


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[dramamama611]

I'm assuming you've had them at different times in your life - so chances are your voice was (or is) still changing.  Which could explain the different answers.  (Or one or more of them don't know what they are talking about!)

 

Why aren't you asking your CURRENT voice teacher to explain this to you, part of their job, methinks.   That being said, lot of info to be found online just by putting in those terms into the same search.

[John Adams]

Male vocal ranges fall within three basic registers: Tenor, Baritone, and Bass. There are additional registers that are less common: Countertenor (sings higher than Tenor - in the female Alto range), and Basso Profundo (sings exceptionally low)

Tenor - is defined by your vocal range. The notes you can comfortably sing. You probably already know that Tenors comfortably sing in the higher vocal range.

A Baritenor is a singer whose vocal range falls within both the Tenor and Baritone vocal range.

The two other adjectives your teachers used (lyric and dramatic) come from the German system for further classifying opera singers voices called, Fach (pronounced /fahk/, where the "ch" at the end is made like you're clearing phlegm from the back of your throat).

Both refer to the tone color of your tenor voice.

Tone color is exactly what it sounds like. Some tenors, even though they are singing the same notes, sound lighter and brighter (like lighter, brighter colors: yellow, orange). Other tenor voices (again, singing the same notes) sound darker and heavier (like heavier colors: blue, purple, brown).

Lyric Tenor voices have the softer, lighter, brighter tone color and Dramatic Tenor voices sound darker and heavier.