English Diction the Speakers Hz Speech, a Practical System for the Improvement of Defective, Voices, and the Attainment of Perfect Diction, in Both Speech and Song, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Preface MY first book on this subject, entitled English Diction inS ong andS peech published in 1912, was written originally for my classes in theN ewE ngland Conservatory of Music, and, therefore, the greater proportion of illustrations and exercises contained therein are vocal. Since then I have found it advisable to deal with the two subjects of the speaking voice and the singing voice separately, as, in schools, the study of diction relates to speech only, and usually stops there. For the convenience, therefore, of Primary, Normal, and otherS chools, I am offering in the present book a complete course of training for the speaking voice in a compact form, based on the same principles as given in my first book, but developed more fully. A nother reason for making a study of the language itself apart from singing is that the average student knows so little, at the start, of the correct sound of vowels, of the right actions of the different articulations, or of the need of flexibility of the speech organs, that only very slow progress in the training of the singing voice is possible in consequence of this lack of a proper foundation to build on. The present book, therefore, is intended also as a basic training for singers, to antedate that of my original textbook, English Diction inS ong andS peech. Let me add, that all that is theory, argument, and exposition of principles in this treatise on the speaking voice is addressed particularly to teachers and advanced students and not to the young people in Primary Schools.
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