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The Voice in Singing

The Voice in Singing

by Emma Seiler

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About this eBook

Author
Seiler, Emma, 1821-1887
Credits
Produced by David Newman, Daniel Emerson Griffith and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition
Subject
Singing
Category
Text
eBook-No.
42080
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42080
Release Date
February 12, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber’s Note. — The Voice in Singing — CONTENTS — TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE — INTRODUCTION
  2. 2.I VOCAL MUSIC ITS RISE, DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE
  3. 3.II PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW FORMATION OF SOUND BY THE ORGAN OF THE HUMAN VOICE — OBSERVATIONS WITH THE LARYNGOSCOPE BY MANUEL GARCIA — EMISSION OF THE CHEST VOICE — PRODUCTION OF THE FALSETTO — MANNER IN WHICH THE SOUNDS ARE FORMED — MY OWN OBSERVATIONS WITH THE LARYNGOSCOPE — THE CHEST REGISTER — THE FALSETTO REGISTER — THE HEAD REGISTER — ABNORMAL MOVEMENTS OF THE GLOTTIS — RESULTS OF THE FOREGOING OBSERVATIONS — PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THESE OBSERVATIONS TO THE CULTIVATION OF THE SINGING VOICE
  4. 4.III PHYSICAL VIEW FORMATION OF SOUNDS BY THE VOCAL ORGAN — TONE, AND ITS LAWS OF VIBRATION — THE PROPERTIES OF TONE ( KLANG ) — THE TIMBRE ( KLANGFARBE ) OF TONES — OVER-TONES ( OBERTÖNE ) — THE VOWELS — PARTIAL TONES — BEATS ( DIE SCHWEBUNGEN ) — APPLICATION OF THE NATURAL LAWS LYING AT THE FOUNDATION OF MUSICAL SOUNDS TO THE CULTURE OF THE VOICE IN SINGING — THE CONTROL OF THE BREATH — THE CORRECT TOUCH OF THE VOICE ( TONANSATZ ) 14 — FORMATION OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS — FLEXIBILITY OF VOICE — SPEECH
  5. 5.IV THE ÆSTHETIC VIEW OF THE ART OF SINGING — RHYTHM — CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEMPO — COMPOSITION — EXTERNAL AIDS TO A FINE EXECUTION — TIME OF INSTRUCTION — CONCLUSION — Programme To Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, December 22, 1808. — Programme To a Prize Symphony, by Joachim Raff, performed in Vienna, 1863. — APPENDIX — STRUCTURE OF THE VOCAL ORGANS — THE LUNGS — THE TRACHEA, OR WINDPIPE, — THE LARYNX — Transcriber’s Note. — Textual representation of the diagram on page 68 — IN THE MALE VOICE — IN THE FEMALE VOICE

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