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Chapter 20 Castrat singers, 300 years in the Western music world

During the third round of selection, Shen Xiyin personally handed the microphone to Fang Xing and asked, "What kind of players will Captain Fang Xing choose this time?"

Fang Xing glanced at the few people beside him, everyone was good at different parts.

Guo Keda can play guitar and dance, so it is no problem to be the dancer in the team.

Shao Yu has solid singing skills and strong harmony.

The structure of the team is in place, but something is missing.

In fact, in terms of voice, the men's team draft will lack high-pitched harmony.

Due to the absence of female voices, when male groups make music, they basically cannot touch the five sets of high notes.

Especially when doing harmony, without the part of the female voice, it can't be done vividly.

Fang Xing thought about it and decided, "I need a child's voice, that is, a falsetto tenor who can sing up to G5, or even A5."

If it was on Earth, Fang Xing could actually call the names directly, and what he wanted was Zhou Shen's childlike voice.

That's right, Zhou Shen introduced himself as a falsetto tenor in the first season of "Sound into the Heart", but in fact he is essentially a child's voice.

What is a child's voice?
When human beings are young, the thickness and length of the vocal cords of little boys and girls are similar, so the timbre of children's voices is high, sharp, and bright.

When a boy is 12 or 13 years old, he enters puberty, begins to secrete male hormones, and slowly grows his Adam's apple. At this time, he will enter the period of voice change.

During the voice-changing period, the male throat area increases, and the vocal cords widen and thicken.

In terms of vocalization mechanism, the head voice area is the main voice in childhood, and it will gradually change to the chest voice area in the voice change period.

Therefore, when a man is an adult, his voice is usually lower and thicker than when he was a child.

What is a child's voice?

Speaking of this, we must mention the church choirs in Europe in the 16th century.

The church choir, also called the choir.

Churches are very sacred places for nations of faith.

The scriptures of the church stipulate that "women should keep silent in the church", so the female voices of the church choir are replaced by boys.

However, little boys will grow up, and once they reach the period of voice change, they will not be able to sing anymore.

At this time, the church needs to find a little boy to replace it.

But in this way, you have to start training again.

Therefore, the church has another cruel method, which is to castrate the little boy before his voice changes.

In this way, the little boy has no male hormones, will not have a voice change period, will always maintain a childish voice, and will continue to sing in the choir.

At the end of the Renaissance, eunuch singers were born, and they have been in the Western music scene for 300 years.

There is a film "Farinelli Castrato" co-produced by Italy, Belgium, and France, translated into Chinese as "Peerless Demon Girl", which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994.

The film tells the legendary story of a castrati singer in France. The film shows the castrati singer's perfect voice like the sounds of nature.

Because no one can reproduce the singing voice of the eunuch singer, the singing voice in the film can only be produced by mixing several male voices, female voices and children's voices with modern computer technology.

Of course, these are all history.

There is no such cruel thing in modern times.

However, there are occasional cases where the voice has not changed much after the voice change period among men.

This is a child's voice, which has a higher range than ordinary male voices and can sing female voices.

Zhou Shen belongs to the child voice.

This is the voice of God chasing food.

Professionally, it is called false voice tenor.

In fact, when Zhou Shen first sang "The Whale Incarnate on an Lonely Island", the texture of the voice was not enough, it was very female.

However, instead of dawdling in the entertainment industry, he went to a well-known music academy in a northern country to study.

After professional training, the texture of the sound has been improved qualitatively, and there are more songs that can be controlled.

Later, Zhou Shen in the period of "Singer" has smoothed out his voice change point, and ordinary people can't find his voice change point at all.

Fang Xing just wanted to find a similar child's voice, so that when dividing parts, he could make the music to the fullest.

……

When Shen Xiyin heard that Fang Xing said that he wanted to find a student who could sing up to G5, or even A5, Shen Xiyin's eyes widened immediately, then she brushed her hair, jokingly said:
"Captain Fang Xing, I'm not the one you want, right? After all, I'm the only one who can sing A5 here."

A5 is already an outrageously high scale for a male voice.

Except for special cases such as Vitas and Zhou Shen, ordinary male voices will never be able to sing A5.

You know, Pavarotti, one of the world's three major tenors on earth, sings the High C is C5.

（五组音阶是C5、D5、E5、F5、G5、A5、B5，所以A5比C5高五个音。）
Five sets of high notes, that is not the battlefield of male voices, but the battlefield of female voices.

A5 is difficult for female voices, let alone male voices.

That's why Shen Xiyin joked like this.

Fang Xing also joked, "As long as the director team doesn't object, I want it."

Shen Xiyin put on a regretful expression and said, "Actually, I also want to cooperate with Captain Fang Xing. The prelude to "Nocturne" has already knocked me down. But the rules don't allow it."

Fang Xing looked at the trainees off the court, and began to look for the voice he heard two days ago: "The day before yesterday, or the day before yesterday, early in the morning, I heard a person talking in the corridor, and they drove to A5. Say hello to him, now I want to ask him, would you like to come to my group?"

Fang Xing looked around, but couldn't find it.

After looking around carefully again, he finally pointed to a student in the last row of people: "That Lu Ming."

This student was a little small, sitting in the crowd, blocked by the people around him, and he couldn't see it at first glance.

The student whose name was called stood up slowly, pointed to his nose and asked, "Are you talking about me?"

"You should be able to sing up to A5, right?" Fang Xing asked directly.

The student named Lu Ming quickly waved his hands: "No, that one is too high and the voice is too high-pitched. That day, it was just singing, not real singing."

"That's not important, I'll just ask you if you would like to join my group." Fang Xing listened to his A5 that ran the scale with his voice that day, and the texture of his voice was actually not bad.

"When... of course."

Lu Ming was a little dazed, because he was in Class D, and most likely belonged to the level of the second round tour.

Now the captains of each team are robbing the students of class B, and it is impossible for class D to join the group.

Fang Xing didn't play cards according to common sense. Before he finished grabbing the cards from class B, he directly picked them to class D.

However, this is not the place where Fang Xing played the most unreasonable cards, and the next one will be even more unreasonable.

After Fang Xing finished selecting Lu Ming, he directly announced: "Okay, my team is complete."

"What... what?"

Everyone at the scene was confused again, this time even the program crew was a little confused.

(End of this chapter)