HOW TO SING

[MEINE GESANGSKUNST]

BY

LILLI LEHMANN

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY

RICHARD ALDRICH

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1902

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1902,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped November, 1902.

Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

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CONTENTS

My Purpose 1

My Title to write on the Art of Song 5


SECTION I

Preliminary Practice 11


SECTION II

Of the Breath 19


SECTION III

Of the Breath and Whirling Currents 27


SECTION IV

The Singer's Physiological Studies 35


SECTION V

Equalizing the Voice; Breath; Form 45


SECTION VI

The Attack 69


SECTION VII

[Pg vi]Nasal. Nasal Singing 73


SECTION VIII

Singing toward the Nose. Head Voice 78


SECTION IX

The Head Voice 86


SECTION X

Sensation and Position of the Tongue 99


SECTION XI

The Sensations of the Palate 102


SECTION XII

The Sensation of the Resonance of the Head Cavities 108


SECTION XIII

Singing Covered 123


SECTION XIV

On Vocal Registers 133


SECTION XV

Development and Equalization 142


SECTION XVI

White Voices 154


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