Blog Assignment #9

As a singer, I know that vibrato is a hard technique to master. So I can appreciate both styles. However, I do prefer the Broadway straight tone opposed to the opera style vibrato. Vibrato can easily turn into a warble and the intonation can be off and while that didn’t happen during the opera piece, it was not my style. I think we are more similar to a pop or straight tone style these days in popular music; so hearing the heavy vibrato almost sounds like too much. However, when opera was more popular, I’m sure that listeners would enjoy it because they were used to it. In the piece I chose, there is not much vibrato because it is an acapella choir piece and too much vibrato could easily throw off the intonation of the singers.