Training The Boys Changing Voice With Musical Illustrations

Author : Claude Ellsworth Johnson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330057025
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Training of Boys' Voices written by Claude Ellsworth Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Training of Boys' Voices Never before in the history of music has the singing of children been so much a matter of popular interest as at present. Schools everywhere, both public and private, are providing instruction in music reading, and the choirs of boys are constantly increasing. The natural voices of children for the most part, however, are misused; for, excepting in the few choirs of cultivated boys' voices, children are almost universally permitted to sing without vocal training in both day schools and Sunday schools, and are urged to "sing out," until the strain upon their voices becomes a matter of grave vocal abuse. Every year many voices are irretrievably ruined before maturity, according to the testimony of prominent vocal teachers. Nature should be our guide. A correct knowledge of the child-voice, its capabilities and limitations, would enable singing teachers and chorus conductors generally to prevent this wholesale injury and destruction. All children have some natural ability to use their voices aright, and the majority can be taught to sing well. The artistic possibilities of boys' voices have been known for centuries. Beautiful ringing tones could be heard from them everywhere if singing teachers were only able to train them in the right way. Mastery of this training is easily attainable by any painstaking teacher who has a good musical ear, a fair knowledge of music, and the necessary patience. The training of children's voices, however, constitutes a department of voice culture for which some special preparation is required, and to assist in such preparation is the purpose of this little book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.