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Title: How to Sing
[Meine Gesangskunst]
Author: Lilli Lehmann
Translator: Richard Aldrich
Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19116]
Language: English
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HOW TO SING
[MEINE GESANGSKUNST]
BY
LILLI LEHMANN
[Illustration: MADAME LILLI LEHMANN.]
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY
RICHARD ALDRICH
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1902
_All rights reserved_
COPYRIGHT, 1902,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped November, 1902.
Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
MY PURPOSE 1
MY TITLE TO WRITE ON THE ART OF SONG 5
SECTION I
PRELIMINARY PRACTICE 11
SECTION II
OF THE BREATH 19
SECTION III
OF THE BREATH AND WHIRLING CURRENTS 27
SECTION IV
THE SINGER'S PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES 35
SECTION V
EQUALIZING THE VOICE; BREATH; FORM 45
SECTION VI
THE ATTACK 69
SECTION VII
NASAL. NASAL SINGING 73
SECTION VIII
SINGING TOWARD THE NOSE. HEAD VOICE 78
SECTION IX
THE HEAD VOICE
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