Fortunately the reaction has begun. Slowly but surely we are returning to a saner condition of mind. Every year adds to the number of those who recognize singing as an art, whose vision is clear enough to see that the work of the scientific investigator should be confined to the laboratory and that it has no place in the studio. We are beginning to see that the basic principle of singing is _freedom in the expression of the beautiful_, and that the less there is of the mechanical in the process the better.
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My Voice and I. Clara Kathleen Rogers. Chicago, 1910.
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Expression in Singing. H. S. Kirkland. Boston, 1916.
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Voice Building and Tone Placing. H. Holbrook Curtis, M. D. New York, 1896.
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Ancient Art and Ritual. Jane Ellen Harrison. New York, 1913.
The Musical Amateur. Robert Schauffler. New York, 1913.
Art for Art's Sake. John C. Van Dyke. New York, 1914.
What is Art. Count Leo Tolstoi. New York.
The Life of Reason. George Santayana. New York, 1913.
The Creative Imagination. Ribot. Chicago, 1906.
The New Laocoon. Irving Babbit. Boston, 1910.
A New Esthetic. Ferrucio Busoni. New York, 1911.
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The Philosophy of Style. Herbert Spencer.
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Appreciation of Art. Blanche Loveridge. Granville, O., 1912.
Music and Nationalism. Cecil Forsyth. London, 1911.