Choir Training (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Choir Training<br><br>Diagram of vowels.64. Peculiarity of 0 and A.65. The vocal R.66. Diagram of consonants.67. Preliminary training.68. Resonance, pitch, and vowel quality.69. The registers.70. Three divisions of the treble voice.71. Blending of registers.72. The low register.73. The middle register.74. The high register Diagram.75. Importance of the middle.76. Production of middle notes.77 78.Exercise for finding the focus.79. The compass of boys voices.80. Shall boys be used as altos 81.No. 82.What to do with boy altos.83. Usual range of boys voices.84. Voice production exercises General directions.85. Variety.86. Three principal figures.87. The octave.88. The arpeggio.89. The descending scale.90. The ascending scale.91 92.Combined figures.93. Teaching a new figure.94. Transposition.95. Supreme importance of tone.96. Soft and loud singing.97. Vowel exercise.98. The round 0. gg. Er.100. A.101. E.102. Rules for sonants.103. Consonant exercise.104 105.Artificial words. pronouncing conPART III. The Rendering Of Church Music. Chapter I. Hymns.106. Importance of hymns.107. Points to consider.108. Musical accent.109. Verbal accent. no. Musical emphasis. in. Verbal emphasis.112. The two combined.113 116.Hymns with refrains.117. Breath-taking and phrasing Two rules.118. Difficulty of phrasing hymns.119 120.Instances. 121.Directions for phrasing.122. Importance of phrasing.123 124.How to teach phrasing.125. Accuracy of time.126. What to avoid.127. Endings Another rule.128. Illustration.129. Proof.130. Endings with consonants.131. Application of rule.132. Three classes of hymn-tunes. 133.Advantages of practising hymns.134. Summary.135. A lesson.136. In detail.137. The choirmasters attitude. Chapter II. The Responses, Etc.138. The details.139. The General Confession.140. What note to take.141 143.Flattening How to avoid it.144. False accents.145. Distinctness.146. Pace.147. Volume.148. The Lords Prayer and Creed.149. The commencement.150. The Festal and Ferial Responses.151. Endings.152. Phrasing.153. A common error.154. General directions.155. The Amens.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.