Voice Culture Made Easy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Voice Culture Made Easy<br><br>The first book I wrote was published in February, 1904. It was Three Aspects of Voice Production: Physiological, Practical, Hygienic. A few years earlier I had commenced the investigation and experimentation which led to the writing by me of Rational Hypnotism and other psychological works, and to my collaboration, in practice and authorship, with Emile Coue. Throughout, however, my interest in voice-culture has never waned.<br><br>James Braid, the Manchester surgeon, who (about 1841) coined the term "hypnotism," objected to being called a "hypnotist." He protested that he was no more a hypnotist than a castor-oil doctor. Similarly, I would be viewed as a hygienist and teacher who has used hypnotism extensively (because of its very wide applicability, from a health and an educational standpoint), but who was primarily a singer and voice-culturist who was employed as such in four military hospitals, where my duty consisted in the treatment of stammering, stuttering, and other speech disorders, in addition to voice-culture as a health restorative for soldiers suffering from neurasthenia, gassing, and so on. In that connection I wrote a work on The Cure of Stammering, Stuttering, and Other Functional Speech Disorders.<br><br>Perhaps I should mention that I was trained on the broad lines of the old Italian school, and that my voice has lasted so well that, during the time I was working at the Cou-Orton Institute, Albert Visetti (the singing-master who was then Principal of the Royal Academy of Music) tried to persuade me to go on to the operatic stage.<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.