Anuna - Cormacus Scripsit

[ellyssian]

Today's tune, Cormacus Scripsit, is another from 1993's (using the correct date) album Anuna:

Comments

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Something I find amazing about Celtic vocals is the lack of vibrato. To sustain these notes without wavering in pitch or volume is a feat that I suspect only another vocalist will recognize. I can control my vibrato, slowing it down, speeding it up, eliminating it for a time before gradually adding it back in for the sake of dynamics, but there is no way in heck I could completely sing without it at all and stay on pitch.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

That's interesting.

I noticed some vocalists who tend to use excessive vibrato, and I've always wondered why it was so popular. I'm thinking in particular of two different recordings of Les Miserables, and, more particularly, the part of Fantine. The first recording I had of it (I believe the original cast?), I really liked the voice. For the full symphonic recording, Fantine was performed by someone who used so much vibrato it proved distracting, and, really, has kept me from picking up that set on CD...

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't remember the details of Les Mis. I remember the music generally, but nothing more. There are two types of vibrato, the one that varies in volume and the one that varies in pitch. I can't stand to listen to someone whose vibrato varies in pitch. To me, it sounds like they just aren't hitting the right note. Someone who uses extensive vibrato in the vibratory sense in Jewel, and though she dumbs down her music for her CD's, she's pretty darn awesome.

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

apparently that piece is from some marganalia in a medieval manuscript.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

My first thought at the mention of marginalia is Sergio Aragones, who would make a very entertaining monk... although perhaps not one quite so musical... =)