Как петь по-французски
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Ретро, американо-квебекский, урбан, french variety. Четыре семьи для студии.
IN THE STUDIO
Уже не очень ясно, как это сказать
The language has changed. The codes for singing it have changed too. When an artist arrives in the studio, it is hard to guide them on what will suit their vocal style. It has not been formalised.
Adeline Toniutti takes this from a conversation with her manager. In Anatomie du Chant she groups these ways into four families. That is the point: not “articulate French”, but choose how you sing it.
The five pivot points remain the same instrument. The family is the colour you ask for.
RETRO
Стиль ретро
Катят «р», как Édith Piaf. Режут слова, чтобы жила тишина. Гласные чистые. Вибрато принято.
Barbara Pravi and Zaho de Sagazan have taken up some of these codes, the rolled “r” in particular. Chimène Badi covers Piaf with her soul style, and the vibrato stays owned. It is not “doing old”. It is a French that lets silence work, that does not swallow the vowels, that is not afraid of an “r” you can hear.
AMERICAN-STYLE
Американо-квебекский стиль
Это то, что Adeline в зале и на ТВ называет «петь по-американски».
Big-voiced singers take on anglophone ways. A more nasal placement. Syllables are cut like an American diphthong. Céline Dion, Natasha St-Pier.
Тванг, из пяти опорных точек, у неё зовётся «петь по-американски». Céline Dion и Diane Dufresne кладут его во французский.
The palate stays raised. This is not nasalising to “do Céline”. Nasalising the sound, palate down, larynx dropping: that is the counterfeit of twang, and it puts the folds at risk. To find the flow of that French, Adeline sometimes has people sing a French song in English “yaourt”, onomatopoeia, until the line runs. At the Star Academy château, Claudia Tagbo’s yaourt with Michèle Laroque made the whole room laugh. The exercise is there to find that cutting of syllables.
Иллюстрация © Emma Blanc-Tailleur, Anatomie du Chant, Adeline Toniutti
URBAN
Урбан-стиль
Some sounds, in the way of pronouncing or linking, come from rap or the urban.
Vitaa: an urban musicality, and a purity of timbre that is hers. Yseult, Angèle: they personalise the vowels according to the emotion. Here French is not “less sung”. It is linked differently. The vowels move with what you feel, not only with the written vowel.
FRENCH VARIETY
Стиль french variety
Чистые гласные. Вибрато нет или оно сдержанно. Близко к естественности текста. Mylène Farmer, Françoise Hardy.
No rolled “r” to make a period colour. No American diphthong. French stays near the spoken sentence, but it is still singing: the five pivot points hold the gesture, the vowel stays clean. The tongue between the molars, the nasals thought upward: the same pivot point 5, another dose.
Иллюстрации © Emma Blanc-Tailleur, Anatomie du Chant, Adeline Toniutti
THE PALETTE
Это не костюм. Это выбор цвета
You do not change larynx to go from Piaf to Céline. You change what you ask of the vowels, the “r”, the silence, the vibrato, the link between syllables.
Пока жест здоров, есть вся палитра. Когда выбор сужается, жест менее оптимизирован, иногда опасен.
In the studio the question is therefore not “are you articulating enough?”. It is: which family are you in, today, for this song? The same artist can cross several. Chimène Badi shows it: Piaf plus soul. Céline can take the twang off. The professional is not stuck to one family.
A TIRED VOICE
Если голос устал
Whispering is not advised. Adeline would rather have you speak with accents that favour a good placement, for an organic result with minimum effort: Québécois, Marseillais, or an actress like Chantal Ladesou. A technical virtue, and it loosens the room.
That meets the American-Québécois style without forcing it: the accent puts the voice where it carries, without squeezing.
IN PRACTICE
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1. One family per phrase
Retro, American-Québécois, urban, French variety. One only for the phrase you are recording. You can change on the next verse. You do not mix everything in the same vowel.
2. Check the marks
Retro: rolled “r”, held silences, pure vowels, owned vibrato. American-Québécois: syllables cut like a diphthong, more nasal placement, twang you put on and take off, palate raised. Urban: rap links and grain, vowels that follow the emotion. French variety: pure vowels, discreet vibrato, close to the text.
3. If it will not flow in American-Québécois
English yaourt on the French song, then back to the text. You look for flow, not imitation.
4. The five pivot points stay the frame
Whatever the family: posture, free larynx, held exhale, cavities, articulation.
Pathology of the folds: see a specialist.
CALYP
Работать семью в CALYP
Метод — в Anatomie du Chant (Marabout, 2024). Чтобы работать его с командой: запишитесь.
Часто задаваемые вопросы
Какие способы петь по-французски даёт Anatomie du Chant?
Четыре семьи: ретро (Пиаф, Pravi, Zaho), американо-квебекский или по-американски (Селин, Natasha St-Pier), урбан (Vitaa, Yseult, Angèle), french variety (Mylène Farmer, Françoise Hardy).
Петь по-американски — это тванг?
Да, в жаргоне Adeline. Тванг учат из пяти опорных точек. Нёбная занавеска поднята.
Нужно ли катить r, чтобы петь по-французски?
Только в семье ретро. В french variety гласные чистые, вибрато сдержанно.
Можно ли менять семью от песни к песне?
Да. Профессионал не приклеен к одной семье. Семью называют до дубля.