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TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE |
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a) "Although the air is directed through the nose the tone is never in the nose, nor is it nasal. It is above the nose, coming through the nose."
b) **Walk about the room with arms upstretched to take the weight off the chest."
c) "Singing the tone softly with hand on head is sometimes useful to prevent the thin register from being forced upwards."
d) c*We use 'squeals* first of all, to awaken the interosseus spaces."
e) "It is also necessary to imagine you are singing from above downward in order that you may be *on top of the tone/ "
f) " "Pushing* may be avoided, if the chest is kept open to quiet the flow of air before it acts on the vibrator."
g) "To keep loose breath from entering the lungs, all muscles must be in a continual state of tonicity (elastic tension) and lungs must fill from the bottom up."
h) "He who breathes with the upper and forgets that he has a lower part to his trunk is sure to fail as a singer."
i) "The vowels must be started on the underlip and held in the space between the underlip and the teeth and never allowed to slip back behind the teeth into the buccal cavity."
j) "Be able to hold your structure—body, throat, and head—open thirty seconds at a time, releasing easily from the foundation upward, ten consecutive times."
k) "To sing well you must continually feel 'hollow-headed/ 'full-throated/ 'broad-chested* and 'tight-waisted.'"
1) "Before starting to phonate, inspire the breath, with the minimum possible tension, by expanding the lower ribs and diaphragm. Then, at the moment of attack, continue this 'out* (inspiratory) gesture and take the tension smoothly, without jerking. As the tone is established, hold this tension which must be *timed* to occur at the moment of attack—not too soon and not too late. By attacking the tone on the inspiratory gesture, you have established the necessary inspiratory tension."
m) "In order to bring out the color of the tone, the whirling currents must vivify ail the vocal sounds that enter into it and draw them into their circles with an ever-increasing, soaring tide of sound."
n) "Exalt the mighty diaphragm! It is the key to true vocal technique."
14. Empirical knowledge predominates. Effects are often treated as causes and reasoning starts from different fundamental assumptions re- |
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