The Clippinger Class-Method of Voice Culture

LESSONS AND Introduction; 1. An outline ; 2. Stage presence; 3. Breath-control (the diaphragm); 4. Breath control (attack); 5. Breath control (deep breathing); 6. Freedom from tension; 7. Vowel formation; 8. Vowel color; 9. Double vowels; 10. Tone quality; 11. Resonance; 12. Study of consonants; 13. Phonetic spelling; 14. Study of consonants, continued; 15. The even scale; 16. Voice-placing; 17. The head voice; 18. Observations on the male voice; 19. Legato and sostenuto; 20. Staccato; 21. Embellishments; 22. Flexibility; 23. Interpretation; 24. Proportion and utility; 25. The use of the imagination; 26. How to study a song. SONGS AND All through the night; Angels, ever bright and fair / George F. Handel; Begone, dull care; Cradle song (Duet) / Johannes Brahms; Cradle song / Homer A. Norris; Faith in Spring / Franz Schubert; Friendship (Duet) / Theodore Marzials; Funiculi, funicula (A Merry Heart) / Luigi Denza; How still the night! / Adolf Jensen; I attempt from love's sickness to fly / Henry Purcell; In night's still calm / Gustave Luther; In the garden / Robert Schumann; It was a lover and his lass / Thomas Morley; Last night (Duet) / Halfdan Kjerulf; Love has eyes / Sir Henry Rowley Bishop; My love's an Arbutus; Nearest and dearest (Duet) / Luigi Caracciolo; Noon and Night / C.B. Hawley; O rest in the Lord / Felix Mendelssohn; Old love song; On the banks of Allan Water / Lady C.S.; Out of my soul's great sadness / Robert Franz; Page, The / Anton Rubinstein; Passing By / Edward Purcell; Polysyllabic study, A / D.A. Clippinger; Rose softly blooming / Louis Spohr; Shadow song / D.A. Clippinger; Spring song (Duet) / Eduard Lassen; Sweetheart of mine; Swing low, sweet chariot; There was a jolly miller; Thou art near me, Margarita / Eric Meyer-Helmund; Venetian boat song / Jacques Blumenthal; Wanderer's night song (Duet) / Anton Rubinstein; When love passed by / William F. McCoy; When the bluebird sing (Duet) / George B. Nevin.