Coffin's Sounds of Singing Principles and Applications of Vocal Techniques with Chromatic Vowel Chart

by Coffin, Berton

• ISBN13: 9780810844186
• ISBN10: 0810844184
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1960-01-01
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Now in paperback! Defines the vowel color changes in chromatic progressions for all voices and tells how singing principles can be used by relying on the ear, the eye, and the sense of vibration in the body. (Price includes vowel chart.) Cloth edition [0-8108-1933-3] published in 1987. Paperback available April 2002.

Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition of Sounds of Singing	p. 1
Preface to the first edition of Sounds of Singing	p. 5
Foreword	p. 12
The Teaching of Paola Novikova	p. 15
Classical Principles of Sounds of Singing	p. 43
The Voice as a Musical Instrument - Bel Canto	p. 47
Linguistic Elements of Singing	p. 63
Comparison of Speech and Singing	p. 71
The Vowel Resonator - Finding Sympathetic Resonance	p. 77
The Chromatic Vowel Chart	p. 85
How to Use the Chromatic Vowel Chart	p. 90
The Relationship of Phonation and Timbre in Singing	p. 98
Larynx Position	p. 104
Historical Registers, Passagios, and Vowel Scales	p. 108
Vocalises for Female Voices with Chromatic Vowel Chart	p. 121
Vocalises for Male Voices with Chromatic Vowel Chart	p. 131
Agility and Diction	p. 138
Singing with Vowel Thinking	p. 147
Resonating Vowel-Pitch Studies, Female Voices	p. 151
Resonating Vowel-Pitch Studies, Male Voices	p. 164
The Breath	p. 177
Practicing with Vowel Resonator	p. 180
Resonance Lessons for Female Voices	p. 184
Resonance Lessons for Male Voices	p. 194
Epilogue	p. 204
App. A: Questions and Answers	p. 206
The Singer's Health	p. 219
Readings concerning Register Techniques	p. 222
Readings concerning Breathing Techniques	p. 239
Open Your Mouth (correctly)!	p. 254
Spectrograms of Vowel Resonances	p. 256
Covering - Clear and Sombre Timbre	p. 257
Connections of Tones	p. 263
The Trill	p. 266
Difference Tones	p. 268
The Radiography of Vowels and its Acoustical Correlations by Pierre Delattre	p. 271
Illustrations	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 290
Glossary	p. 299
Index	p. 304
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