Lühike sissevaade hääle problemaatikasse
Brief insight into the issue of voice

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at proposing an introductory insight into the issue of voice. The difficulty in dealing with voice lies in the fact that it inevitably comprises various and rather remote aspects to be taken into consideration such as physiological, physical, psychological, sociological, musical, symbolic, and others. The state of in-between of voice may be seen as one of its fundamental characteristics — situated between body and soul, interior and exterior, personal and social, physical and abstract, voice creates a link from myself to the other as well as it enables an insight of myself. Inherent in orality, voice has lost its original role in Western letter-based societies, which has altered our perception of language and speech. Being intimately related to body and sexuality, voice is one of bodily products. And yet there is no “voice organ” in organism, voice carries no vital function in body. On the other hand voice opens to the symbolic and spiritual: it is the privileged musical “instrument” of most religions. The capacity of voice to unite music and human language in song causes the peculiarity of voice in the domain of music.

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