The Voice in Singing
by Emma Seiler
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Chapters (48)
- The Voice in Singing
- CONTENTS
- TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- I VOCAL MUSIC ITS RISE, DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Textual representation of the diagram on page 68
- IN THE MALE VOICE
- IN THE FEMALE VOICE
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