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TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE |
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11. ''Practice pitching or tuning'* the words in a song hy using the "free and natural inflections'* of speech. [Howe 284, p. 63] if. "When people begin to study singing they are astonished to find
that .they have never learned to speak." [Passe 443, p. 64]
13. The simplicity and ease of enunciation in speaking should be captured and carried into singing. Tongue, larynx and mouth will then remain at ease. [Henderson 243, p. 119; Wycoff 695; Maybee 382, p. 6]
14. Vocal and dramatic technique should be studied simutaneously. •'Ability to read the text of a song intelligently, dramatically, and to carry over such a reading into the singing is essential to good song interpretation." [Wagner 627; Lawrence Tibbett 614]
15. Effective singing elicits the same expressional activity that is present in dramatic speaking. The breath is vitalized and colored with the intensity "of impassioned utterance. Effective interpretation demands speech in song. A singer must talk sense in his songs. Intelligibility of meaning k derived from the same values that obtain in intelligible speaking. [Greene 209, p. 27]
16. *There is no singing without saying; that which is sung must also be said.*' Richard Wagner's idea of vocal training was to make the vocalist **realy and distinctly speak in singing." Beginners might remain seated while practicing their vocal exercises, as if they were merely talking to the teacher. [Owsley 441, p. 91; Marafioti 368, pp. 72, 182 and 271]
17. *T£ the student does not sing the vowel [word] correctly, ask him m speak it" [Ciippinger 104, p. 13]
18. "Song k intoned recitation.,, [Jetson-Ryder 304]
19. "Select a phrase and have the pupil begin to speak it, gradually, more and more sliding into a sustained pitch, and ending in singing." Employ this technique with an entire song. Caruso always sang as he spoke. {Be Brayn 131]
«a After memorizing the text of a song, recite it aloud in order to experience the projection of its spoken message. [Conklin op. cit.]
Reciteime as a factor. The art of recitative h defined as "a species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner re-lembliog declamation. . . . Recitative is thus characterized by freedom
from strict form/* being oratorical rather than melodic in its phrasing. (W) In this respect, it is closely related to speaking. Certain explanations appearing in Grove's Musical Dictionary are also useful to the teacher of singing. Recitative k de$cribed-as "language in song/* or the declamatory |
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