The Mechanism of the Human Voice Part 12

Roger, the French tenor's style, 4, 6

Rossini on decline of vocal art, 2

Seiler, description of the registers, 92 ----, Madame, on "wedges", 54 ---- on action of vocal ligaments, 100

s.h.i.+eld and ring, Motion of, 34, 71

s.h.i.+eld cartilage, 34

s.h.i.+eld plates, 33, 71

s.h.i.+eld-pyramid muscles, 41

Singable music, 3

Singing _v._ speaking, 18

Snoring and keeping mouth open, 30

Sphincter muscle of the glottis, 44

Spirometer tests recommended, 19

Teaching, Hints on, 106

Tenors as teachers of female voice, 2 ----, Short vocal life of, 1 ---- sing octave lower than written, 87

Tobold, how tone is produced, 40

Tone, how produced, 56 ----, loudness, 56 ----, pitch, 56 ----, quality, 56 ----, Three ways of producing, 83

Tongue-bone, 34 ----, Exercises to control, 124

Tonic Sol-fa College, Experiments, 20

Tremolo, Controlled artistic, 22 ----, Involuntary, 21 ---- mars fine voices, 20 ----, Origin of, 21

Violin, Experiments for tone on a, 57

Vocal gymnastics, 114

Voce mista, 118

Voice-box, Attempts to see the, 74 ---- compared with instruments, 8 ----, differences in size, 62 ----, dissecting, 7, 44, 57 ----, its parts specified, 31 ---- measurements, 64 ---- movements, teaching of, 70, 72 ----, visible movements, 69

Voice-breaking, Cause of, 63

Voice, Cause of high or low, 65 ---- cultivation exercises, 110 ----, female, Wrong use of, 95

Voice, period of change in youth, 63 ----, quality of, exercises, 119 ----, poverty of the age, 1 ---- sufferers, Cure of, 24

Vowel scale, Order of the, 116 ----, Use of palate in forming, 59

Wedges, Action in small register, 103 ----, or cuneiform cartilages, 51, 54, 81

Whispering, Voice-box movements in, 70

When to keep the mouth shut, 29

Wilson, Erasmus, on cuneiform cartilages, 54

Windpipe described, 31, 81

Witkowski on "the wedges", 55 ---- on views of specialists, 8

Women in church music, 2

Words ignored by composers, 3

INDEX TO "VOICE FAILURE."

Breathing, Evils of clavicular, 128

Breathing, Lamperti on, 129

Breathing, Wrong, 127, 128

Forcing, 128

Forcing, Acquiring top notes, 137

Intonation affected by resonance, 134

Laryngoscope, Its lessons, 137, 138

Lung capacity, 128