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The Clippinger Class-Method of Voice Culture
An altogether sane, balanced and practical text book by one of America's eminent authorities on the voice. It contains 132 pages of instructive text, technical exercises, melodic studies, and carefully chosen songs and duets.
The author's deep study of the voice together with his long experience in solving difficult vocal problems in the studio has enabled him to rid the subject of vagary, mystery, and uncertainty, and state the principles of voice-training so clearly and simply that they may be understood by anyone.
A tone is _something to hear_. Therefore, to be right it must satisfy the trained ear.
A good tone is _easily produced_. It is the bad tone that is difficult.
A considerable part of voice-training must be devoted to _getting rid of resistance_, that is, effort at the wrong point.
Good voice-production is based on the _right idea_ of tone and right conditions of the instrument.
The study of singing should be _an invigorating and inspiring form_ of exercise.
To sing _well_ is an accomplishment _well_ worth the time and effort involved.
An adequate treatment of breath-control, vowel-formation, vowel-color, tone-quality, resonance, consonants, phonetic spelling, diction, the head voice.
An illuminating discussion of interpretation, and how to study a song.
An outline of the principles of interpretation as a basis of criticism.
Purchase of outside material unnecessary.
The book is COMPLETE in itself, with ample text, nearly 150 exercises and studies, 25 songs and 7 duets.
_Art Songs for School and Studio_ (FIRST YEAR)
EDITED BY MABELLE GLENN and ALFRED SPOUSE
Issued in Two Editions--Medium High--Medium Low--$1.00 each
_Art Songs for School and Studio_ (SECOND YEAR)
_Edited by_ MABELLE GLENN and ALFRED SPOUSE
Issued in two editions--Medium High--Medium Low--$1.00 _each_
Because of the success of the _First Year_ book and the demand for a second book, a step in advance, this collection has been issued. It contains twenty-three second-year songs, including two duets, from the works of Brahms, Densmore, Franz, Fisher, Grieg, Henschel, Jensen, Manney, Schubert, Schumann, Sinding, Strickland, Tchaikovsky and Watts.