The Psychology of Singing. A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern - Softcover

Taylor, David C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444454544 ISBN 13: 9781444454543

Publisher: ValdeBooks, 2023

Synopsis

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTEB.in BEOISTEH8 AND LARYNGEAL ACTION Pbobably no other topic of Vocal Science has been studied so earnestly as the registers of the voice. Yet on no other topic is there such wide diversity of opinion among theorists and investigators. Very little is definitely known regarding the manner in which the subject of registers was treated by the old Italian masters. Suffice it to say here that the old masters did not refer the registers to changes in the laryngeal action. They were treated simply as different qualities of tone, each quality best adapted to be sung only in a portion of the voice's compass. In the early decades of the nineteenth century the registers of the voice received much attention from vocal theorists, especially in Paris Garcia's first published work, Memoire sur la Voix hu- maine, was

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About the Author

David C. Taylor, author of "Night Life", was born and raised in New York City. He spent twenty years in Los Angeles writing for television and the movies. He has published short stories and magazine articles, and has had an Off-Broadway musical produced in New York. He now divides his time between Boston and the coast of Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: ValdeBooks
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444454544
• ISBN 13: 9781444454543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 163