Características do belting como recurso interpretativo de canções da música popular brasileira

Abstract

Belting is a technique originated from the north american musical theater. However, with the american musicals version and production from Broadway to Portuguese, it was opted to do adaptations of the techniques used on the voice projection of musical theater as well, considering the language prosody. The Contemporary Belting is a modern technique based on the voice physiology, study that deals with functioning mechanisms used on the vocal production. This technique defends that with the knowledge about how the voice production happens, the excessive effort is avoided. In addiction, is based on the sub- registers study, term created by Marconi Araújo maestro, that consists of the vocal fold warm-up and cool-down work added to the sounding boards. The present monograph includes vocal analysis and a literature review, which aims to identify the five sub- registers used of the Contemporary Belting on Brazilian Popular Music songs and analyzes nowadays singers interpretation, as Ellen Oléria, Ferrugem and Jorge Vercillo and vocal adjustments performed by them. For the present analysis in this study were used as theoretical references, the book Belting Contemporâneo, by maestro Marconi Araújo and the book Musculatura Intrínseca da Laringe, by Dr. Silva Pinho. Under the bibliographic vision and also after identifying the presence of Belting in the analyzed performances, it was possible to verify that the Contemporary Belting is present in MPB singers, as interpretative resource option.