The Child-Voice in Singing

The Child-Voice in Singing - Treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs

If any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. One of the most encouraging signs of the growth of musical taste and understanding at the present time as regards the singing of children, is the almost unanimous acquiescence of choirmasters, supervisors, teachers, and others in the idea that children should sing softly, and avoid loud and harsh tones; and the author ventures to hope that the first edition of this book has helped, in a measure at least, to bring about this state of opinion. It is true that for a long time the art of training childrens voices has been well understood by choirmasters of vested choirs, and by many others, but its basis was purely empirical. Something more, however, than the dictum of individual taste and judgment is needed to convince the educators of our schools of the wisdom 4 of any departure from established customs and practices. The primary end, then, of the author has been to show a scientific basis for the use of what is herein called the head-voice of the child, and to adduce, from a study of the anatomy and physiology of the larynx and vocal organs, safe principles for the guidance of those who teach children to sing. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 22581
Author: Howard, Francis E. (Francis Edward)
Release Date: Sep 12, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English