Voice production in singing and speaking : based on scientific principles / by Wesley Mills.

  • Mills, Wesley, 1847-1915
Date:
[1906]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Voice production in singing and speaking : based on scientific principles / by Wesley Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VOICE PRODUCTION CHAPTER I. THE CLAIMS AND IMPORTANCE OF VOCAL PHYSIOLOGY. To know consciously and to do with special ref- erence to guiding principles are to be distin- guished from carrying out some process without bearing in mind the why or wherefore. Science is exact and related knowledge, facts bound to- gether by principles. Art is execution, doing, and has not necessarily any conscious reference to principles. While every art has its corresponding science, their relation is in some cases of much greater practical importance than in others. While a painter may be the better for knowing the laws of light, there can be no question that he may do very good work without any knowledge whatever of the science of optics. He is at least in no danger of injuring any part of his person. Entirely otherwise is it with the voice-user. He employs a delicate and easily injured vital appa- ratus. His results depend on the most accurate adjustment of certain neuro-muscular mechan- isms, and one might suppose that it would be