The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-08

He told me that primarily, the English
language is difficult to produce sweet tones
with; it has so few labials and so few
purely nasal sounds. 1t is filed with hard,
harsh consonants.
Now, the Italian tongue trains the voice
TO sweetness in itself. The throat and
mouth in this have to assume certain posi-
tons to form the words, SO that the voice
comes out rounded and softeneA.
English speech prevents the posing of
the voice properly. 1t tends to produces
tones that come from the larynX. when
tneH should come from the upper chest.
But the English women speak the same
language with us, and yet you admit their
said.
=, That is a matter of life and eli
ways speak from the upper chest They
are splendidly developed there. This
gives their tones the richness and depth
women live a more out-of-door life, they
walk more, they expand their chest more.
Ihey simply use their nose and throat
as breathing apparatus. through which
IAN English woman's throat is also
hardened. While our women have a ball
or dining room heated to so degrees,
when they were wearing low gowns, an
English woman goes into a. temperature
OF from 80 to 60 degrees. This cold air
never leaves her with the many throat
from.
But a significant cause of the unpleas-
ant voices of our women is the furnace
fire. This so clogs up the nose with
dust and floating particles that the tones
come through those great natural res
onant pipes with an effort. The tones
themselves are then discordant.
This condition is complained of by the
great singers sooner than anything else
They cannot tolerate a furnace fire. When
the famous women who sang in the Met
season they each had to be moved from
rooms where there was furnace heat.
They insisted on open fire places, and
could not understand how Americans en-
dured such hot houses.
This is why the women of the south
( ern states have sweeter voices, although
just as badly posed as the northern. Their
noses are not stuffed up.
/ "One Of the commonest errors is to
say that disagreeable voice is caused
by talking through the nose. The trouble
/ You can easily see the difference by
/ holding the nostrils closed and speaking
through the mouth.
| This fact suggests the constructive
condition which is against American wo-
men speaking Sweetly. Their noses are
not as we'll formed as those, of the Wo-
men of other races. The shape OF the
nose and the cavities about 1t have much
to do with tone production.
! This also has to do with the over
/ tones that produce harmonics, and 1t IS
many singers such excellent quality OF
voice"
! | asked him what was g, good form of
treatment for our women to adopt to
sweeten their voices. He advised ath-
letics that expand the chest. a careful
study of posing the voice-that is, or
| dropping it from the larynx to the upper
chest. Then to avoid heated rooms as
much as possible. With these precautions
and careful training, the American wo-
men can overcome one or their most
serious defects. 81, e..
London society women have this fad
now IN full cry. There is a teacher CIV
sneak. These women are giving as much
care and attention to the art as singers.
Why not open such a school in New
York I? 1t surely is a fad worth tolioWIng-
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