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Title: How to Sing
[Meine Gesangskunst]

Author: Lilli Lehmann

Translator: Richard Aldrich

Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19116]

Language: English

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HOW TO SING

[MEINE GESANGSKUNST]

BY

LILLI LEHMANN

[Illustration: MADAME LILLI LEHMANN.]

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY

RICHARD ALDRICH

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1902

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1902,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped November, 1902.

Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

MY PURPOSE 1

MY TITLE TO WRITE ON THE ART OF SONG 5

SECTION I

PRELIMINARY PRACTICE 11

SECTION II

OF THE BREATH 19

SECTION III

OF THE BREATH AND WHIRLING CURRENTS 27

SECTION IV

THE SINGER'S PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES 35

SECTION V

EQUALIZING THE VOICE; BREATH; FORM 45

SECTION VI

THE ATTACK 69

SECTION VII

NASAL. NASAL SINGING 73

SECTION VIII

SINGING TOWARD THE NOSE. HEAD VOICE 78

SECTION IX

THE HEAD VOICE