CONCLUSION

In conclusion, the student can perpetually find encouragement in a
number of happy facts.

Man is endowed by nature, except in rare instances, with a perfect
vocal apparatus. When abnormal conditions are found they are usually
in the adult voice, and are due solely to misuse. In other words
defects are not inherent but acquired and _can be removed_.

By nature the human voice is beautiful, for the tendency of nature is
always in the direction of beauty. Whatever is unlovely in singing, as
in all else, is _un_natural. True method is therefore never artificial
in its action, but simple, because the natural is always simple.

Finally, no, not finally, but firstly and secondly and thirdly and
perpetually, every student of singing and every teacher of it must
constantly bear in mind the happy law:

=THE RIGHT WAY IS ALWAYS AN EASY WAY=

BOOKS CONSULTED

TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHED

An Essay on the History
and Theory of Music, and
of the Qualities and Capacity
of the Human Voice Isaac Nathan London, 1823.

Elements of Vocal Science Richard Mackenzie Bacon London, 1824.

Orthophony; or the Cultivation
of the Voice in Elocution William Russell Boston, 1859.

Vocal Physiology Charles Alex. Guilmette New York, 1860.

Die Lehre von den
Tonempfindungen als
physiologische Grundlage
fuer die theorie der Musik H.L.F. Helmholtz Brunswick, 1863.

The Sensations of Tone as
a Physiological Basis for
the Theory of Music H.L.F. Helmholtz

(Translation of above) (Translated by A.J.
Ellis) London, 1875.

Sound John Tyndall London, 1867.

Principles of Elocution and
Voice Culture Benj. W. Atwell Providence, 1868.

The Voice, Its Artistic
Production, Development
and Preservation George J. Lee London, 1870.

The Cultivation of the
Speaking Voice John Pyke Hullah Oxford, 1870.

Voice Building Horace R. Streeter Boston, 1871.

Principles of Elocution and
Voice Culture Benjamin Atwell Boston, 1872.

Hints for Pronunciation in
Singing Georgiana Weldon London, 1872.

The Voice in Singing Emma Seiler