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The voices can have unique timbres although we mostly hear angelic, high, perhaps breathy and falsetto voices among the children under 12 years of age. We have remarkable child soloists who amaze audiences with their skillful singing also in popular music.
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Modern composers also like to write interesting works for children´s choirs. by the famous boys´ choir of Vienna, the Wiener Sängerknaben, who have recorded the great Bach Passions among other works. In choirs, they can perform the most demanding works, as can be heard for ex. This is the time children can musically develop to a very high level in their singing. Of course, the more they sing the more their range expands.
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The ideal range for these young children is about one octave D4-D5 (starting from above middle C) even though some young children can sing really high. The teachers´ own voices may not be trained, they might be overly conscious of their singing and use the vocal range of speech which in most cases is much too low for kids. An unfortunate mistake many teachers make at this stage is that they have the children sing in too low musical keys. Kids usually love to sing and it should be encouraged. Children learn to sing everywhere: in their families, in kindergarten or daycare, in pre-school or Sunday school. There are no big differences between girls´ and boys´ voices during the ages of 1-5. The old truth “Use it or lose it” applies! There are of course considerable differences between individuals, as always in physical traits, but these descriptions apply in most cases. Let´s look at all these phases and how your voice usually behaves.