VOICE PRODUCTION
IN
SINGING AND SPEAKING
BASED ON
SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES
BY
WESLEY MILLS, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.C.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY IN McGILL UNIVERSITY, AND LECTURER
ONVOCAL PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE IN THE McGILL UNIVERSITY
CONSERVATORIUMOF MUSIC,
MONTREAL, CANADA
FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED
CONTENTS
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Illustrations of the appearance of the larynxduring phonation in two special cases. (Grünwald.)
EXPLANATION OF THE COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS.
They contrast with each other in that the one (upper) is too red; theother, too pale. The upper represents appearances such as one getswith the laryngoscope when the subject has a very severe cold, or eveninflammation of the larynx, including the central vocal bands. In thisparticular case, a young woman of twenty-five years of age, there wasinflammation with a certain amount of weakness of the internalthyro-arytenoid muscles. Speaking was almost impossible, and suchvoice as was produced was of a very rough character. In the lowerillustration we have the appearances presented in a man affected withtuberculosis of the lungs and larynx. The pallor of the larynx ischaracteristic. There is weakness of the internal thyro-arytenoidmuscle on the right side, which results in imperfect tension of thevocal band on that side, so that the voice is uncertain and harsh.Such illustrations are introduced to impress the normal by contrast.The reader is strongly advised to compare these figures with others inthe body of the work, especially those of Chapter VII.
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION.
In addition to certain emendations, etc., introduced throughout thework, I have thought it well to add a chapter in which the wholesubject is treated in a broad and comprehensive way in the light ofthe latest scientific knowledge.
In this review the psychological aspects of the subject have not beenneglected, and the whole has been related to practice to as great anextent as the character of the book permits.
It is significant that on both sides of the Atlantic there is agrowing conviction that the foundations for speaking and singing as anart must be made as scientific as the state of our knowledge willpermit.
The Author.
January, 1913.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
No preface to the Second Edition w