Voice Production In Singing And Speaking Based On Scientific Pr

Science and art--The engineer, architect, physician, nurse, and others, compared with the vocal teacher and learner--Unfavorable tendencies--The old masters--The great elocution...

Relations of animals to each other--Common properties of living matter--Explanation of these--The mammal and man--The stimulus and its results--The one-celled animal--Various "s...

Breathing the great essential--Misconceptions--Purpose of breathing as a vital process--The respiratory organs--Their nature--Relations of the lungs to the chest-wall--Expansion...

Relations of the nervous system to breathing--The respiratory centre--Reflex action in breathing--Methods of preventing nervousness--Tones produced by the outgoing breath--Waste...

The well-developed chest--The voice-user a kind of athlete--The tremolo--Exercises recommended for the development of the chest--Forms of dress that hamper breathing--Weighing a...

Not the only voice-producing apparatus--Specific structures of the larynx in use when the subject phonates--Muscles and their attachments--The cartilages of the larynx--The lini...

Some study of physics desirable--Sound and vibrations--The sounding body--Experiments to illustrate the principles of sound--Qualities of sound--Animals and perception of sound-...

Various kinds of breathing, as "abdominal," "clavicular," etc., discussed--Control of the whole of the breathing mechanism urged--Correct breathing as a habit--Breathing in the...

Vocal bands and resonance-chambers compared--Improvised mechanism to illustrate resonance--Musical instruments as resonance-bodies--A vowel in relation to the resonance-chambers...

A controverted subject--Definitions of a register--Qualifications for dealing with this subject--Madame Seiler--Tabular statement of her views--Garcia's and Behnke's divisions o...

Auto-laryngoscopy and photography of the larynx--Dogmatism and science--Confusion and controversy--The break--Ignoring registers--Modification of tones, or "covering"--Points of...

Artistic expression only through movements--Emotions and technique--Relation of ideas to movements--Memories and movements--Guiding sensations essential for movements--The princ...

Vowels, consonants, noise--Consonants and pauses--Voice-production and vowels--Certain vowel sounds common to most languages--Why German and English are relatively unmusical--Th...

Principles and their expression in a few exercises--Analysis of the methods of tone-production--The sustained tone--Smoothly linked tones--The legato--The staccato and kindred e...

The subject may be made dry or the reverse--Vowels, consonants, noise--The position of the lips and the shape of the mouth-cavity in sounding the various vowels--How to demonstr...

The best vowel to use in practice--Necessary to practise all--The guttural _r_ and the lingual _r_--Consonants that favor nasality of tone--Overtones and fundamental tones--Rela...

Why this chapter is introduced--The essential mechanism of hearing--The part played by waves and vibrations--Divisions of the ear--The external ear in lower animals--The drum-he...

Hygienic as related to physiological principles--Hygiene in the widest sense--Unfavorable conditions in the public life of an artist--Qualifications for success--Technique and a...

Stammering and stuttering--Those who have broken down--The increase of the range of a voice--The part the student plays in settling such questions--Selections to be avoided--Con...

The object of the speaker or singer--The idea of co-ordination--The study of vocalization may be considered a study of movements--The psychic condition--The instrument which is...

To know consciously and to do with special reference to guiding principles are to be distinguished from carrying out some process without bearing in mind the why or wherefore. S...

The demonstration that all animals, even all living things, have certain properties or functions in common is one of the great results of modern science. Man no longer can be ri...

If the old orator was right in considering _delivery_ as the essence of public speaking as an art, it may with equal truth be said of singing, the term being always so extended...

When one takes into account the large number of muscles employed in respiration, and remembers that these muscles must act in perfect harmony with each other if the great end is...

The first great requisite for a voice-user is a well-developed chest; the next, complete control of it, or, to put it otherwise, the art of breathing, as briefly explained above.

The larynx, or voice-box, is not the sole voice-producing apparatus, as is often supposed, but it is of great, possibly the greatest, importance. In describing the parts of this...

Before discussing our subject further it is desirable that some attention be given to a few of the fundamental principles of that department of physics termed _acoustics_, and w...

Experience proves that breathing, for the speaker and singer, is one of those subjects that may be very inadequately comprehended by the student, and, the author regrets to say,...

When it is borne in mind that the vocal bands have little or nothing to do with the quality of tones, the importance of those parts of the vocal apparatus which determine qualit...

About no subject in the whole range of voice-production has there been so much confusion, difference of opinion, and controversy as that of registers; so that it is important at...

It will, it is hoped, be apparent to the reader that the subject now under treatment may be considered either theoretically or practically. If science be exact, systematized, an...

It is highly important for the speaker or singer to realize early in his career that all forms of artistic expression can be carried out only through movements--muscular movemen...

Certain sounds may be made without the use of words or syllables, even without the employment of vowels or consonants, but intonation proper cannot be carried out without vowels...

It is no doubt valuable, indeed for most singers essential, to employ a series of elaborate exercises, or _vocalises_, which in some cases differ from each other only by slight...

The subject treated in this chapter may be made dry enough; but if the student will, while reading the descriptions given, endeavor to form the sounds described, observing at th...

The reader will now be prepared to consider the answer to be given to the question as to the _vowels_ most suitable for practice in intonation. Plainly, _a_ (_ah_) puts the reso...

So important are the ingoing sensory messages (impulses) that originate in the ear, as a guide not only in the appreciation of musical sounds but in those movements on which all...

Hygiene deals with the laws by the observance of which health is to be maintained and disease prevented; but as such laws must be based on physiological principles, hygiene foll...

_Stammering_ and _stuttering_ are allied but not identical defects. They require special treatment, the earlier the better. Much can be done by the exercise of a little patience...

All the most important truths of any subject may be stated in a brief space. The Author proposes to make this final chapter one of a restatement of the essentials of the subject...