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CONCEPTS OF VOCAL PEDAGOGY |
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therefore untiring, even after hours of performance. When strain is felt, the method is wrong. [Samoiloff 484, p. 31; Wharton 655, p. 92]
2. " 'Unconscious effort' is the sine qua non of fine singing." [Warren 6$6] "linnecessary tension and rigidity can spoil everything/* [Ibid.
637]
3. "The supreme vocal virtue is 'effortless artistry.' *' [McLean 386]
4. "The singer should always give the impression of being perfectly at ease." [Christy 97; Hemery 238, p. 118]
5. Exercises for attack should also develop economy of effort. Qudd 309, p. 14]
6. Technique without ease is an unfinished product. Public performÂance must therefore wait on its acquirement [Allen 7, p. 12]
7. "Purity of tone and ease in production are inseparable." [Glenn 204]
8. A voice produced with ease has a greater carrying power. [Howe 284, Introduction]
9. The right way is always the easy way. [Orton 439, p. 106]
10. Don't try to do anything. Merely allow the tone to come. [Jeffries 302; Butler 86]
11. "One fails to sing well when he tries [strives] to sing well." [Mac-Burney 361]
12. "Allow the voice to sing. Do not make it sing." [Haywood 237, vol. II, p. 8]
13. Faith and freedom are all you need for voice placement. Quit trying to help your vocal cords. "They will perform if you believe they can." [Efnor 159, lesson 3]
14. Correct vocal action must be induced. It cannot be forced. [Dunkley 151, p. 2]
Overcoming inhibitions and fears. The Dictionary of Education defines inhibition as the "restraint of an impulse or function by an opposite force from within." [706] A common cause of vocal inhibition in singing is fear. Fear is an emotional response characterized by apprehension, uncerÂtainty or alarm as to the outcome of an action or experience (such as singing). (W) Shaw declares that "it is the general experience of teachers of singing that fear, in the mind of the [vocal] student ... is the greatest and most persistent obstacle to overcome. . . . The first requirement of the teacher is to eliminate this appalling and almost universal sense of fear." [530; Stanley 578] McLean writes: "Fear is a destroyer of balance; and vocal faults, in the beginning, are the outcome of some type of fear. |
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