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Title: The Voice
Its Production, Care and Preservation

Author: Frank E. Miller

Contributor: Gustav Kobbe

Release Date: January 4, 2010 [EBook #30854]

Language: English

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THE VOICE

Its Production, Care and
Preservation

_By_
FRANK E. MILLER, M. D.

_With a Note by_
GUSTAV KOBBE

_SIXTH EDITION_

NEW YORK: G. SCHIRMER
BOSTON: BOSTON MUSIC CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1910
BY G. SCHIRMER

NOTE

Dr. Frank E. Miller, the author of this book, is one of the leading New
York specialists on throat, nose and ear. He numbers many singers among
his patients and is physician to the Manhattan Opera House, Mr. Oscar
Hammerstein's company.

To expert knowledge of the physiology of the vocal organs he adds
practical experience as a vocalist. Before and during his student years
he was a singer and held, among other positions, that of tenor in one of
the large New York churches. This experience has been of great value to
him in his practice among singers. He understands them temperamentally
as well as physically. Moreover, it has led him, in writing this book,
to consider questions of temperament as well as principles of physiology.
Great as is the importance that he attaches to a correct physiological
method of voice-production, he makes full allowance for what may be
called the psychological factors involved therein--mentality, artistic
temperament, correct concept on the part of the singer of the pitch and
quality of the tone to be produced, etc.

Above all, Dr. Miller, while convinced th