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! TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE
6. "I am convinced that all there is to be learned about the voice can be done on a song." Vocal techniques can best be taught through illustrative song materials rather than through abstract exercises. Each song fragment should concretely illustrate the principle to be learned. "By the time the principle is practiced and understood, a song is learned." [Waters §47, p. 1; 641; 644]
7. In efficient technical study "the teaching material should consist of music-in other words, of *pieces'~and formal exercises can be almost whoEy discarded. ... A technique can best be built out of the piecemeal study of performance problems when and as they arise." In studying thee problems, "clear expressive utterance" is always the goal. [Miirseli 410; Stultz 595]
8. "Vocal exercises should be developed out of the actual music you are singing. . . . Your problems exist only in your music." [Norton 428]
g. Vocalises can justify their use only through their specific application in the song itself. [Grove 216]
10. "Make exercises out of pieces." This was David Bispham's motto. [Sheiey 545]
11- The teacher should learn to use "fragments of music, such as hymn tune, anthems and songs as voice production exercises." [Jacques sgg, p. 26}
12. **The right kind of music will educate the voice." [Patton and Rauch 445]
13. There are no special practice rules. Use the material at hand. A musical phrase or extract from an aria or lyric will provide excellent practice material for exercising the voice, [Marian Anderson 12; Davies 127, p. 108]
14. A great variety of exercises can be found in wisely selected songs. If exercises can be thought of as phrases of a song they will become vehicles of "expressive meaning" instead of lifeless vocalises. [Luckstone
360; Stock §88]
Against:
1. A premature attempt at interpretation in songs spells the downfall of many vocalists whose technique is still incomplete. [Wood 686,
vol. J, p. 17]
2. A complete mastery of technique should always precede the study
of songs. fBarbareux-Parry 34, p. 262]
$. "Leave the glamorous arias [and songs] for later days." Scales and |
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