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id: 21400
author: Haslam, W. E.
title: Style in Singing
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words: 21707
sentence: 1108
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The slight modifications, or _pointages_, asked from Verdi, were not, I was assured by Madame Saxe, of a character to alter either the rôle or the opera, and she remarked (I quote her own words): Why should Verdi have shown himself more unreasonable or less yielding than Meyerbeer or Wagner? Its _length_ was left to the discretion of the artist, who was supposed to be familiar with the accepted style of delivery termed _recitativo parlante_.


id: 37662
author: Tubbs, Frank Herbert
title: Seed Thoughts for Singers
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words: 29321
sentence: 1899
flesch: 82
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summary:
  She supposes that that which would give her the position is good voice, good singing and a good character. The very first step toward good voice method is to bring the breathing apparatus back to working order.


id: 19138
author: Fillebrown, Thomas
title: Resonance in Singing and Speaking
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words: 27661
sentence: 1521
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Philosophy of Singing_, Clara Kathleen Rogers, while upholding registers, says that considered physiologically the different registers of the voice should be regarded by the singer as only so many _modifications in the quality of tone_, which modifications are inherent in the voice itself. Constant emphasis must be laid upon the fact that focusing a tone is a matter of resonance, and that perhaps the most important element in this is _nasal_ resonance.


id: 32023
author: Curwen, J. Spencer (John Spencer)
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words: 33384
sentence: 1974
flesch: 77
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title:
  The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c.

summary:
  I am myself somewhat to blame for illustrating this book with two pictures of choir boys. A new lot of choir boys will be liable to sing flat, and to lower their pitch at any time for the first year or so; but after they have been in training for a considerable time, I never find that there is any inclination to sing flat.


id: 21957
author: Taylor, David C. (David Clark)
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sentence: 3649
flesch: 63
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title:
  The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern

summary:
  The knowledge of the voice obtained by listening to vocal tones is of equally wide extent. An insight into the singer's vocal action is imparted to the hearer through an imaginative process which always, of necessity, accompanies the attentive listening to vocal tones.


id: 19880
author: Mills, Wesley
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flesch: 61
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title:
  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)

summary:
  That minute mass of jelly-like substance known as protoplasm, constituting the one-celled animal amoeba, may be described as _ingestive_, _digestive_, _secretory_, _excretory_, _assimilative_, _respiratory_, _irritable_, _contractile_, and _reproductive_: that is to say, the amoeba must take in food; must digest it, or change its form; must produce some fluid within itself which acts on food; must cast out from itself what is no longer of any use; must convert the digested material into its own substance--perhaps the most wonderful property of living things; must take up into its own substance oxygen, and expel carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide); and possess the power to respond to a stimulus, or cause of change, the property of changing form, and, finally, the ability to bring into being others like itself. The above exercises, when carried out to a perfect result, give us _bel canto_ singing, for which the old Italian school was so noted, and which is now largely a lost art, not so much because the methods are not known to teachers, as because students will not do the work necessary to attain to this _bel canto_.


id: 33358
author: Cooke, James Francis
title: Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists
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sentence: 3798
flesch: 71
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summary:
  A noted expert, who for many years directed the recording laboratories of a famous sound reproducing machine company, a man whose acquaintance with great singers of the time is very wide, once told the writer of a singer who made records so perfect from the standpoint of tone that no musical critic could possibly find fault with them. You may say that it is expensive to hear great singers, and that you can only attend recitals and the opera occasionally.


