Voice, song, and speech : a practical guide for singers and speakers ... / by Lennox Browne and Emil Behnke.

  • Browne, Lennox, 1841-1902.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Voice, song, and speech : a practical guide for singers and speakers ... / by Lennox Browne and Emil Behnke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. Each of the Authors of the following pages has already contributed something towards the store of literature on the Human Voice. These contributions have had a large circulation and have so far been successful, but they have been necessarily one-sided and therefore incomplete ; for while the surgeon was unable to touch on matters musical, the teacher found himself in a similar difficulty on many points of hygiene and health. The one, after many years of experience, came to the conclusion that wrong production of voice or abuse of its function was the chief cause of most of the cases of vocal failure, and even of throat disease, occurring to professional voice-users, which came under his notice. The other had become equally convinced that the scarcity of fine voices in singers as well as in speakers, generally acknowledged to exist, was due, less to dearth of material, than to faults in its cultivation and exercise. The want of a complete work from both these points of observation had been repeatedly urged upon us, and as we had for some years been in the habit of collaborating in the treatment of patients and pupils, and had found that our experience on all points of physiology and of hygiene, of precept and of practice, in so far as we could form an opinion, was in entire concord, we agreed to write con- jointly something which should, if possible, supply the