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TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE |
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attempt will be made to validate either the opinions expressed or the methodologies proposed. The very absence of documentary proof or ex-perimental evidence might provide an incentive to further research in this subject, if the need were clearly enough indicated by the evidence at hand. To this end, the correlations of concepts in each area of this study are based on their relevancy to certain categories of basic information on the training of the singing voice rather than on the integrity of their authors' thinking processes or the reputations the authors hold, as individuals, for successful teaching. An obscure practitioner may make suggestions that are as valuable to the teaching profession as the individual contributions of some of the most distinguished professional singers, especially if the latter lack the education, scientific training or teaching insights and abilities that are required for pedagogical research. In the exploration of subject matter, as patterns emerge that turn up new problems, questions may sometimes be asked rather than answered. Such questions will be listed among the outcomes of this study.
THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC GARB
The bibliographic card becomes an important tool in this type of research since, like the questionnaire, it is an instrument of inquiry used for gathering and recording needed information. By documentary perusal, rather than by personal contact, the "interviewer" receives and records his data on the bibliographic card. In this study, the following three types of information will be needed: a) bibliographic information or publication data; b) subject notes or excerpts from the works read; and c) method notes, including comments, annotations and other interpretative data. Essential information taken out of literature from widely scattered sources will be brought together by this means, assessed and classified, and made available to the teaching profession.
To meet these requirements, a card was devised that provided a method of recording fourteen different types of information, as follows:
Information on front of card: i. number of card
2. general area of application of subject note
3. library building where book or document is located
4. call number of book or document
5. name of author, title of work, other publication data
6. author's credentials
7. comment, footnote or documentary reference pertaining to subject note |
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