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[edit] Musical roles on voice type pages

This issue has come up once again and perhaps it should be readdressed. Prior discussions on this topic were mostly held on the soprano talk page and opera wikiproject page but as this involves all of the voice types I think the discussion would be best to be had here. I personally have no problem including musical roles for voice types on these pages if the information given is cited. Past issues have been that the roles listed were not cited and arguments over which role belonged in which voice type were endless and frankly became a headache. For example, roles like Eliza Doolittle are often played by both mezzo-sopranos and sopranos. This is common in musical theatre where voice roles are not as clearly defined as they are in classical music. The result of the prior discussion was to not include such roles on the page. Like I said, I personally have no problem adding a list of roles to each page if such lists come from credible sources that are cited. The opera roles are cited and the musical roles should be too.Nrswanson (talk) 22:30, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

It should be noted that part of the prior solution was to create seperate pages for roles in musicals for the different voice types but these articles ultimately were nominated for an AFD and were summarily deleted due to lack of sources. Including similar uncited lists on the voice type pages would be in violation of the spirit of that AFD ruling.Nrswanson (talk) 22:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

What we could do is put next to the role that it may be played by another voice part. I say our "Source" is sheet music, unless the composer transposes the roles (ie Johanna, sweeney todd.) Wikipedia mentions timbre, weight, color. Cain't we go of of that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JesusRocks123 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Individual vocal scores would be acceptable if they label a particular role with a particular voice type. If that role is not expressly labeled in the score as a soprano or other voice part than that decission becomes a matter of personal judgment which is opinion and would not be acceptable. And you would still have to cite such publications. Unfortunately, actual practice in musical theatre doesn't necessarily coincide with what is is in the printed score so conflicts will still occur. What would be best would be to find some musical theatre books which probably do contain such lists and reference them. That is much less subjective and will avoid future conflicts. Do a little digging and I am sure something will come up.Nrswanson (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll do that. JesusRocks123 (talk) 16:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Entirely agree that these lists are very encylopedic unlike what others have suggested. They should be included in lists and each role shoul possibly contain the range required for that particular role. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.40.212 (talk) 09:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Would a singers anthology book be an acceptable reference? The anthology books are labeled by voice type.Broadweighbabe (talk) 07:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

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Can I suggest that this article is moved to Singing voice? For people coming to it with no context it is not clear that it is entirely about singing voice, whereas 'voice type' could mean some other classification. I wasn't even sure if it would be about voice-to-text systems. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

The terminology used in vocal pedagogy is "voice type" so I don't think that would be an appropriate move. I have however, just changed the lead to make it clear that this article is about singing. The classification of voices in speech is actually a derivitive from the musical system and not the other way around. And there really is no practical use for classifying speeking voices so you won't really find anything but off hand comments in phonetics and linguistic books, which is based on musical classification. There isn't, to my knowledge anyway, any sort of definitive range specification for designating speeking voices. Only descriptions of vocal timbre which again use terms first coined in music. Nrswanson (talk) 17:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I defer to your superior knowledge. DJ Clayworth (talk) 15:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

so oaooso oos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.169.82.163 (talk) 17:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)