The Voice in Singing
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students and teachers of vocal music who wish to understand historical teaching ideas
- Scholars studying the history of music education and nineteenth-century vocal theory
- Choral enthusiasts interested in the vocal mechanism and the principles of voice production
- Readers with English reading ability who wish to expand their public-domain music reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern vocal medicine and scientific training systems
- Self-learners with no foundation who cannot judge whether historical views are outdated
- Readers looking only for vocal exercises and systematic practice materials
Reading tips
- Read the chapters on the principles of voice production first, then the training methods, to understand the author's reasoning.
- Compare with contemporary vocal textbooks as you read, marking physiological explanations that modern research has revised.
- Try small-scale attempts in your own vocal practice, but rely on professional teacher guidance for anything involving exertion.
- Excerpt the book's descriptions of breathing and resonance as part of your notes on vocal history.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Emma Seiler (1821–1887) was a German-born American vocal teacher known for her work in vocal training and voice research. Public information about her life is limited; she is known to have taught singing for many years and to have combined teaching experience with observation of the mechanics of voice production, giving her writing both practical and theoretical value. Her representative work, The Voice in Singing, deals with the use and training of the singing voice and addresses learners and teachers, discussing fundamental issues such as vocal production, breath, and tone control. Such works offered practical reference for classroom training as vocal pedagogy became more systematic in the nineteenth century, and they reflect contemporary teachers' interest in the science of the voice. Only one of her works is held in this collection, yet it indicates her place in the literature of vocal instruction.
