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TRAINING THE SINGING VOICE |
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guarantee of success in attack, as to pitch and evenness of result, is to have had immediately preceding vocal experience at about the same level in pitch range. This is realized in the singing of different vowels consecutively on the same note." [583]
3. Dimkley suggests that before singing a succession of different pitches in a song, it is desirable "to gauge the feeling of the highest note in the group" before beginning the group. This can be accomplished by thinking the high tone well in advance of its attack. [151, p. 37]
4. Make your mind (thought) direct the accurate placing of wide interval attacks. This mental preparation will overcome any physical inertia in the throat. [Wood 686, Introduction to Volume III]
5. Kortkamp also favors the mental approach for improving vocal attack. "Imagine you can hear your voice singing that first note for about three seconds before actually singing it." [321] |
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SUMMARY AND INTERPRETATION
The analysis of 463 concepts of phonation offers convincing testimony that there is hardly a subdivision of vocal theory or practice in which authorities da not disagree. Negus, whose 493 page experimental study of the mechanism of the larynx is considered the most comprehensive
and authoritative work in this field, after reviewing all the known explanations of phonation comes to the conclusion that "the whole subject is so vague and confused, and shows such a complete absence of
unanimity of opinion, that it will be necessary to start from the beginning without regard to any previous explanation of the mechanism of phonation." [41S, p. 369] Even the fact that voice originates in the larynx is in dispute. [E.g., White 657] But disagreements among authorities are inevitable within the tangled areas of vocal research and rational comparisons of conflicting viewpoints often help to clarify and reconcile them.
The discussions of vocal theory reviewed herein tend to confirm Negus* opinion. Many of the fragmentary and incomplete descriptions of vocal action are derived from superficial Iaryngoscopic views, supplemented by some X-ray studies of the vocal tract. Some of these descriptions are succinct statements of physiological fact. Others are dilated empirical observations tinged with philosophical comment. Some authors dwell on relatively insignificant data, to the exclusion of more fundamental factors. Others indulge in generalities while ignoring underlying details. A composite abridgement and simplification of these Incomplete frag- |
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