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TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE |
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definite objectives and a sounder educational procedure for future use.
These aims are all encompassed in the three general purposes that motivate this study:
i. To survey and correlate available sources of bibliographic information on methods of training the singing voice.
2. To provide a core of organized information for the use of all teachers of singing.
3. To provide an orientation and background for research in this and related fields.
Teachers of singing will therefore find this study useful as an orientation In the hitherto tangled areas of vocal pedagogy and vocal science; as a means of comparing their own teaching methods with the prevalent
methodologies in the profession; as a source of useful information on certain unfamiliar aspects of vocal theory and practice; as a direction
finder in selecting suitable topics of research where investigations are now most needed; and as a stimulus and Incentive for the freer expression and exchange of ideas along the lines suggested in this treatise. This study should also prove useful as a teacher-training text for newcomers in the
vocal teaching profession.
Plan of Attack
To achieve the foregoing purposes, the initial procedure Indicated is to extract from a widely scattered bibliography, all data concerning the fundamental concepts currently used in training the singing voice and £0 present an analysis and interpretation of these working concepts in unified form. But the charting of unexplored regions of vocal pedagogy calls for more than a survey of vocal literature. It will also be necessary to bring to light some of the primary principles and dominant schools oi thought that govern the art of the singer; to dispel the mystery that enshrouds the teaching of singing; to simplify the vocal terminology; to bring a semblance of system and order into the verbal chaos that now envelops a profuse and complex vocal literature. A suitable bibliography would afford a much needed orientation in available sources of current bibliographic information on this subject. A working vocabulary of defined terms might be helpful In interpreting all these findings. Finally, a compilation of problems and controversial questions derived from this study would provide useful suggestions for research workers In this and related fields.
The process of gathering and refining all this information calls for detailed piaiming Inasmuch as there h no work at present which describes |
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