用法语唱的几种方式
嗓音诊所
复古、美式魁北克、都市、french variety。录音棚里的四个家族。
IN THE STUDIO
已经不太知道该怎么说
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
复古风格
滚舌 r，像 Édith Piaf。切开词，让沉默活着。元音纯。颤音承担。
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
美式魁北克风格
这也是 Adeline 在教室和电视里叫的「按美国方式唱」。
Big-voiced singers take on anglophone ways. A more nasal placement. Syllables are cut like an American diphthong. Céline Dion, Natasha St-Pier.
Twang 从五个支点教，她内部叫「按美国方式唱」。Céline Dion 和 Diane Dufresne 把它放进法语。
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.
插图 © Emma Blanc-Tailleur，《Anatomie du Chant》，Adeline Toniutti
URBAN
都市风格
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
French variety 风格
纯元音。颤音没有，或很轻。靠近文本的自然。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.
插图 © Emma Blanc-Tailleur，《Anatomie du Chant》，Adeline Toniutti
THE PALETTE
不是戏服。是颜色的选择
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.
动作健康，就有整盘调色板。选择变窄，动作就不那么优化，有时危险。
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
如果嗓子累了
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
开录前先点名家族
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.
常见问题
《Anatomie du Chant》里用法语唱有哪几种方式？
四个家族：复古（Piaf、Pravi、Zaho），美式魁北克或按美国方式（Céline、Natasha St-Pier），都市（Vitaa、Yseult、Angèle），french variety（Mylène Farmer、Françoise Hardy）。
按美国方式唱就是 twang 吗？
是，在 Adeline 的行话里。Twang 从五个支点教。软腭抬起。按颜色加上或拿掉。
用法语唱必须滚舌 r 吗？
只在复古家族。French variety 里元音纯、颤音轻。
能一首歌换一个家族吗？
能。专业的人不粘在一个家族上。开录前先点名家族。