The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-22
Studio Talk.

"The only decoration bestowed upon
womon by the French government, IN ~, ~,
interesting communication on lhe 9ugJeIe 9NiJJ'oh
OF modern voice training says: MuSn
has been written of late on voice tralninh
In general. but no one has had the couI
age to face the vital question oI 'ne
medium voice. Each new teacner' III
eegerness to obtain renown through soulc
new method. has sought 10 improve On
his predecessors. Different nations nas e
evolved different theories, u9uotIeEsS pJs
adapted to some extent to natural conul-
tlons, but all have recognized the three
registers in the voice. easily discerheo
but difficult to connect, oos,, to hiring
1T seems comparatively easy 10 of,n5
out the chest and the head tones, eut
the placing OF the medium voice ls no.
settled yet. and there always mas oeen
and now Is much controversy on the SUD
ject It order TO have the medium tones
strong and full there was an attenpt on
the part OF some TO extend the cneSt
tones into the medium register. rms
proved n failure. Then II was tried TO
have the middle tones just sung SOFT ana
sweet, which produced only dull weak
voice The latest attempt Is TO sing
everything with head tones. These aro
all means to avoid difficulty, but thcy
do not overcome 1t. Sometimes we near
teachers exclaim: II we could out ma
the old Italian method" But that ls
easily shown by comparing an old Italian
opera with the style OF the more modern
ones In the times of the old Italian
operas a singer could sing n lifetime.
Nowadays a singer scarcely reaches the
zenith of her career before she is obliged
to give up or become a teacher, and sim
ply on account of the deficient qualities OF
her medium voice
The New York Sun. OF November %.
1905 said: Singers are born once In
while, and the teacher who gets a pupil
OF this sort rcaps a lot Of glory from the
chance In reference 10 this II strikes
me that IL should be the teachers task
to bring out the voice full and lasting.
which every singer, without any cxccp-
tion. can accomplish,
1T seems TO be the consensus of opin-
ion nowadays that voice training should
start with the chest register and work up
ward And there is the source Of all
impossibillty TO overcome No ono can
even the chest tones into those OF the
medium, though by starting with the
medium first and working IL down into
the chest register, a full and brilliant
medium voice can be obtained.
Although Garcia advocates this latter
theory In his method, II has not been Un-
derstood by the average teacher up to
date because the throat has TO take an
illustrated In practice and cannot be
understood through his explanations.
Though apparently simple. the student
needs the guidance OF q persons of
perience to arrive at results.
II teachers were moro careful regard
Ing tho registers Of the voice there would
be less faulty singing. one OF the first
principles Is to retain the natural beauty
OF the voice and seek for evenness with
perfect smoothncss from both ends OF the
voice to the middle. This can only be ac-
complished by perfect breath control, and
that from a knowledge OF breathing from
tho breath control theory"