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7§ TRAINING THE SINGING VOIGE
There is stirprising unanimity of opinion among the advocates of
natural breathing. The statements listed here as basic concepts represent their point of view:
i. "When students become over breath-conscious they seldom sing well. It h amazing how very few line singers know how they breathe." [Wilson 674, p. 29]
2. Much confusion has arisen in the singing profession as a result of teaching methods that attempt to regulate the exhalation of breath. [Kuester §24]
3. Nature's breathing is fool-proof while we sleep. Therefore practice natural breathing in a lying down position. [Lloyd 351, p. 2]
4. Perfect breath control is unobtrusive because it is natural and therefore never apparent to the listener. [New York Singing Teachers
Association 421, p. 30]
5. Breathing in singing is an automatic physiological function. [Marafioti 368, p. 88]
6. <4In natural breathing, the supply is always equal to the demand/* [Hall 222]
7. In the vocal studio, normal bodies have adequate lung capacity for singing. If the body is subnormal, build it up in a gymnasium. [Hall and Brown 227, p. 6]
8. Singers who lock the breath cannot possibly express a natural
tone. [Hill 272, p. 20]
9. Great singers of the past always breathed the natural way.
[Byers 89]
io. Singers should not take special breaths before singing but should breathe, instead, "in the normal way, as though they were not about to sing." There will always be sufficient quantity of breath if the vocal
emission is right. [Brown 65, p. 19]
11. Watch out for Satan's instruction: "Take a good breath and get ready." That is the surest way of defeating your effort to sing. [Stults
597]
12. The object of the singer is to sing, not to breathe. Over-attention to breathing mechanics distracts the singer's attention from the realm of sound production which demands unceasing vigilance of mind
and ear. [Drew 147, p. 118]
13. The old Italian method emphasized natural breathing. [Harper
228, p. 79] |
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