The Voice in Singing

The original print of this book uses Helmholtz pitch notation, where middle-C is represented by a lowercase c with one over-line, the C above with two over-lines, etc. For acces...

The art of singing rose in the course of the seventeenth century to an extraordinary height of cultivation, and was diffused more and more by means of the opera, then blooming,...

“As we have just seen--and what we have seen proves it--the inferior ligaments at the bottom of the larynx form exclusively the voice, whatever may be its register or its intens...

This is a simple fact, scientifically established, universally known. It admits, therefore, of no doubt that the common custom of forcing the registers beyond their natural boun...

The strength of the tone depends on the greater or less breadth of its vibrations, that is, of the waves of sound, the higher or lower pitch of the tones upon the number of the...

With some distinguished exceptions, it is now almost universally the practice to require the pupil, as the very first thing, to fill the lungs as full as possible, whereby the c...

Rapid runs downwards are easily executed correctly when care is taken that with every tone the same movement is made as in the case of trills, and the breath is kept back as muc...

Music, above all the other arts, finds the earliest and most universal recognition, and almost every one listens to it with pleasure. Helmholtz says that music is much more inti...

In light, airy pieces of music, this last mode of taking breath had a charming effect, but was mostly left to the taste of the singer. The earlier singers, moreover, were very s...

From the anterior surface of the _arytenoid cartilages_, extending towards the centre of the inner wall of the _thyroid cartilage_, running diagonally through the cavity of the...