Gioachino Rossini_William Shakespeare_Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Art Of Singing

Contents

• Introduction
• Management of the Breath
• The Vocal Organs
• Placing the Voice
• The Tongue
• The Voice on the Breath
• The Jaw
• Soft Palate
• Lips and Face
• Eyes
• Attack and Legato
• Tone
• Faulty Projection
• The Registers of the Voice
• Chest Register
• Medium Register
• Head Register
• Table of the Registers
• Voice-Force and Intensity of Breath Pressure
• Expression
• Preliminary Remarks on the Emission of Vowel Sounds
• Starts on all the Vowel Sounds
• For Acquiring Facility of Pronounciation
• Vowels in Groups of Four
• Variants on the Exercises
• Recapitulation in the Form of Rules
• Preliminary Exercise
• Exercises
• Exercises
• Exercises
• Exercises
• Exercises
• Hints on the Practice of Head Voice
• Exercises on the Head Register
• Exercises on the Chromatic Scales
• Exercises on the Arpeggio
• Embellishments
• Embellishments
• Embellishments
• Embellishments
• Embellishments
• Embellishments
• Messa di Voce
• Advanced Technique
• Exercises for the further Development of Agility
• Hints on Phrasing
• Vocalises
• Pronounciation
• The remaining Diphthongs
• On the selection of the vowel sounds in certain words
• The Buzzes
• Hints on other consonants
• Additional exercise on the trill
• On Extra Foreign Vowel Sounds and Consonants
• Concluding Observations
• Aria
• Une Voca Poco Fa (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
• Aria
• O Del Mio Dolce Ardor (Elena e Paride)
• Appendix