The Psychology of Singing : a Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern.
Whether you're a vocal practitioner or a music enthusiast, David C. Taylor's The Psychology of Singing will guide you to a deeper appreciation of the art. Taylor takes a controversial stance against a scientific approach to vocal control and instead emphasizes the mental, psychological, an...
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The Floating Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Tone-production and voice culture
- Breathing and breath-control
- Registers and laryngeal action
- Resonance
- Empirical materials of modern methods
- A general view of modern voice culture
- Mechanical vocal management as the basis of voice culture
- The fallacy of the doctrine of breath-control
- The fallacies of forward emission, chest resonance, and nasal resonance
- The futility of the materials of modern methods
- The error of the theory of mechanical vocal management
- The means of empirical observation of the voice
- Sympathetic sensations of vocal tone
- Empirical knowledge of the voice
- The traditional precepts of the old Italian School
- Empirical knowledge in modern voice culture
- Scientific knowledge of the voice
- The correct vocal action
- The causes of throat stiffness and of incorrect vocal action
- Throat stiffness and incorrect singing
- The true meaning of vocal training
- Imitation the rational basis of voice culture
- The old Italian method
- The disappearance of the old Italian method and the development of mechanical instruction
- The materials of rational instruction in singing
- Outlines of a practical method of voice culture.
