The philosophy of voiceBailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1874 - 72 páginas |
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acting action adductor muscles air imprisoned articulate speech arytenoid cartilages association automatic beautiful breath chest register Czermak detached larynx difference disease elastic epiglottis equal error fallacy false cords falsetto female larynx female voice fissure full vibration Garcia greater head register hence Herr Behnke human voice ignorance induced instrument intrinsic laryngoscope living subject Madame Seiler male voice ment mucous membrane musical profession musician Nature nerve-currents observed obstruction octave orator oratory organ of voice orifice owing perception pitch pressure principle produced re-enforcement reflex action rightly says school of song Signor Garcia's singers sole approximation spoken words station note syllable teachers teaching thing tion Titiens tonicity trainers true cords true musical sound true vocal ventricles of Morgagni vocal cords vocal ligaments vocal tone vocal utterance Voice in Singing voice production voice training volitional vowel vowel sounds wind and reed Wyllie Wyllie's
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Página 46 - Of the Tones of the Human Voice. There is a similar sublimity or beauty felt in particular notes or tones of the human voice. That such sounds are associated in our imaginations, with the qualities of mind of which they are in general expressive, and that they naturally produce in us the conception of these qualities, is a fact so obvious, that there is no man who must not have observed it.
Página 47 - Now, all right human song is, 'similarly, the finished expression, by art, of the joy or grief of noble persons, for right causes. And accurately in proportion to the Tightness of the cause, and purity of the emotion, is the possibility of the fine art. A maiden may sing of her lost love, but a miser cannot sing of his lost money.
Página 56 - Bain's explanation for the way in which connexions between individual traces are made is that 'for every act of memory, every exercise of bodily aptitude, every habit, recollection, train of ideas, there is a specific grouping or co-ordination of sensations and movements, by virtue of specific growths in the cell-junctions
Página 14 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Página 31 - The plan found so commonly throughout the body in such structures, in the aortic and ileo-caecal orifices, and in the course of the veins, holds good here likewise. In the upper half the resemblance is most obvious. Comparing it with the aortic valve, we find the representatives of the sinuses of Valsalva in the well-marked ventricles of Morgagni, whilst the cusps are reproduced in the two folds of mucous membrane, whose free edges are known as the false vocal cords.
Página 28 - Society publications, vol. zi, 1861. would appear that they have not received the attention they deserve. Wyllie points out that Czermak was probably deceived in regard to the second factor in the closure of the glottis. Czermak thought that the superior vocal cords approach the inferior, so as to obliterate the ventricles of Morgagni, at the same time that they also meet in the median line.
Página 11 - ... of the human voice in speech may be so nearly imparted to the sound which the imitative larynx is producing, as plainly to show that there is no necessity for seeking any power of altering the quality of the notes in the larynx itself.
Página 51 - ... drives the inhaled air into the most remote ramifications of the lungs, and thus furnishes the residual air. The author believes that by a true use of voice chest-disease may be successfully warded off; because a greater consumption of carbon takes place, quickening circulation and hastening digestion. Purely as a question of health, the voice should be cultivated collaterally with the culture of words ; both spoken words and vocal tone should grow up together, but each power should be taught...
Página 15 - small " register, that which results from a " node ;" and we may accept Signor Garcia,s definition of a register as being " a series of consecutive and homogeneous sounds, rising from the grave to the acute, produced by the development of the same mechanical principle, the nature of which essentially differs from any other series of sounds equally consecutive and homogeneous produced by another mechanical principle.
Página 28 - Laryngoscope? he states that during closure of the glottis he has observed that— " (1) The arytenoid cartilages intimately meet at their internal surfaces and processes, and they bring the edges of the vocal cords in contact; (2) the superior vocal cords approach the inferior vocal cords, so as to obliterate the ventricles of Morgagni, at the same time they also meet in the median line...