One is strangely conscious in reading him of the presence of some great unuttered power--some vast demiurgic secret--struggling like a buried Titan just below the surface of his mind, and never quite finding vocal expression.
Thou art conversant with the principles of music both vocal and instrumental, and fond of both vocal and instrumental music.
It is mostly in tremolo, a sort of indescribable vocal "shake" that is enchanting beyond the power of words to express.
While pursuing thisvocal ignis fatuus I made a charming discovery.
Not far from Mrs. Lindley's, Hedrick abruptly becamevocal in an artificial laugh.
Cora, forgetting what she owed the unfortunate Mr. Trumble for the vocal wall which had so effectively sheltered her earlier in the evening.
It was not vocaland no more than just audible: it was a prolonged scream in a whisper.
It was vocal with the declaration, when you got it, for a submission of the constitution to the people.
I insist upon knowing why he made the bill silent upon that point when it was vocal before he put his hands upon it.
I find the bill vocal with the provision, while he silenced it.
We cannot determine the position of the vocal chords before producing the note.
The committees, acting on the principle of securing the highest talent, have generally engaged the bestvocal performers whose services were available.
He published a number of vocal and instrumental compositions, of which the best is his oratorio of “Palestine.
He was the author of “The Elements of Vocal Science,” and other works.
Brahms had become interested in writing for the voice, and had already composed any number of beautiful vocal solos and part songs.
This theory made both vocal and instrumental music secondary to the dramatic plan, and this, at that time, seemed a truly revolutionary idea.
Some fastidious ear found a vocal passage too harsh, or another too impassioned, forgetting that forcible expression and striking contrasts are absolutely necessary.
The first awakening of this feeling came from his admiration of Constantia Gladowska, a beautiful girl and vocal pupil at the Conservatory at Warsaw.
We have now to observe the unwearied energy with which Brahms, during the years that followed added one after another to his list, in each and every branch of serious music; songs, vocal duets, choral and instrumental works.
In this vocal confusion it was some minutes before he recognized the voice of one of his out-flankers calling to the other.
No catbird scatters through the bush The sparkling crystals of its song; Within the woods no hermit-thrush Thridding with vocal gold the hush.
If Wagner would only let me know ten vocal notes from his "Nibelungen," my mind would be at rest.
Should you think it inconvenient to publish a book of vocal compositions,--lieder or ballads, melodies or lyrical effusions, anything?
For that purpose I may first mention the step which I have fixed upon taking in order to make the copyright of "Lohengrin" much more valuable than otherwise it would be--I mean the publication of separate vocal and pianoforte pieces.
I alone, being the composer, was able to separate a number of the most attractive vocal pieces from the whole by means of rearranging and cutting them and writing an introduction and a close to them, etc.
To be sure these giants of sopranists, with their vocal equestrianism, their shouting from the summits of mountains, and their plumes five feet high, were already approaching their last days.
It may be said generally, that in "Ermione" the composer studied the dramatic requirements of his subject more than the vocal capabilities of his singers.
Of the grand vocal and instrumental combinations, so admirably treated in "Guillaume Tell," Rossini had previously given an example in "La Donna del Lago.
Azevedo points out that to please the Venetians, Rossini had introduced the melody of the Carnival of Venice in the duet "Ebben ferisce;" but neither instrumental hisses nor vocal compliments were of any avail.
The vocal parts, always natural, never trivial, give expression to the words, without ceasing to be melodious.
Nor was he above giving lessons during this brief but lucrative visit to England; and a story is told of his having once accompanied the vocal efforts of George IV.
In fact the vocal music and the whole Italian lyrical system of the eighteenth century was much more the work of the singers than of the composers.
Still the great Velluti was in his vigour in 1814, and it was in that year that the young Rossini declared war against these Philistines, and succeeded in liberating vocal music from the tyranny of vocalists.
He became more simple in his musical phrases, which he presented entirely without ornament, and more complex in his vocal and instrumental combinations.
He avoids all that seems contrary to the laws of harmony and of unity, and enjoys rhythm and melodies in instrumental and vocal music.
The great master, who knew so well how to make a hundred instruments rejoice in unison and pour out their souls in mingled and melodious tides of delicious sound, deals only in barren solos when he puts in the vocal parts.
But straightway thereafter, or course, came the singing, and it does seem to me that nothing can make a Wagner opera absolutely perfect and satisfactory to the untutored but to leave out the vocal parts.
Whatever kind of vocal effort is made, the student should constantly guard himself against the least throat stiffening or contraction, against what vocalists call a "throat grip.
Some poetic selections are introduced into Part Two in order to give attractive variety to the student's work, and to provide for the advantage of using verse form in some of the vocal training.
This sounding may be carried to a fault, or affectation; but commonly it is insufficiently done, and it should be among the first objects of cultivation in vocal practice.
It would seem quite unnecessary to say that beauty of voice is not in itself a primary object in vocal training for public speaking.
This body of breath, easily held in good control, by the lower breathing muscles, forms what is called the vocal "support.
The former class have to be mentally awakened; for some motive element, aesthetic appreciation or imaginative purpose, should play a part, as has been said, even in technical vocal training.
In applying these suggestions, as well as all other vocal suggestions, moderation and good sense must be exercised, for the sake of the good outward appearance and the good effect of the speaking.
This vocal practice may be made a healthful and pleasurable daily exercise.
In these and other vocal efforts the throat muscles should be left free to do their own work in their own way.
Footnote: An artificial larynx may be made by using elastic bands to represent the vocal cords, and by placing above them chambers which by their resonance will produce the same effect as the cavities lying above the larynx.
On each side of the glottis are the so- called vocal cords.
The stammerer should seek to discover the cause of his difficulty, and to overcome it by vocal and respiratory exercise, especially by speaking only after a full inspiration, and during a long, slow expiration.
Footnote: When, in sounding a vowel, the sound coincides with a sudden change in the position of the vocal cords from one of divergence to one of approximation, the vowel is pronounced with the spiritus asper.
The voice may utter one thousand five hundred letters in a minute, yet each requires a distinct position of the vocal organs.
Footnote: The cartilages and vocalcords may be readily seen in the larynx of an ox or sheep.
The consonants, or short sounds, may also be made without interrupting the current of air, by various modifications of the vocal organs.
When the vocalcords are brought together before the blast of air begins, the vowel is pronounced with the spiritus lenis.
The study of Handel's recitatives and airs raises perhaps the greatest problem of artistic interpretation--that of vocal ornamentation.
On his near left (quite close to the cembalo) are the vocal soloists.
The vocal ensemble pieces hold a much humbler place in Italian Opera, and Handel has made fewer innovations on this ground than in the vocal solo.
But the most glorious feat of Handel in vocalsolos is the "recitative scene.
With the exception of the Italian operas played at Venice, in which (thanks to Fux) the tradition of vocal polyphony is maintained--a tradition to be put to such good use later by Hasse and especially Jommelli.
But it is in his oratorios that Handel attempted these ensemble vocal combinations on the larger scale, and principally that mixture of movements where the powerful contrasts of soli and chorus are grouped together in the same picture.
Further, there is with his instrumental music, as with his vocal music, nearly always an intimate and picturesque expression.
They gave orchestral and vocal concerts, over which all Venice raved.
This last-named nuisance has ceased to be sovocal of late years, but the plague of "Diaritis" is worse than ever.
Not so, however, stimulation of the region which presides over the movements of the muscles of the larynx, for then both vocal cords are drawn together and made tense as in phonation.
Extending forwards from the base of the pyramids are processes termed the "vocal processes," and these processes give attachment to the elastic fibres of which the vocal cords mainly consist.
Diagram of the cartilages of the voice-box or larynx with vocal cords 5.
While the vocalcords serve the purpose of the reed, the resonator forms the body of the vocal instrument.
This fact, which I have ascertained by numerous careful examinations, is in accordance with the fact that there are no conscious kinæsthetic impressions of alterations of position and tension of the vocal cords.
In the production of chest notes the whole vocal cord is vibrating, the difference in the pitch depending upon the tension produced by the contraction of the tensor (ring-shield) muscle.
Complex neuro-muscular mechanisms preside over these two functions of the vocal instrument.
Diagram (modified from Aikin) illustrating the condition of the vocal cords in respiration, whispering, and phonation.
Vocalisation (emission of vowels) is a natural production of the vocal instrument, and does not in itself contain the essential elements of speech.
During the whisper the vocal cords are separated, leaving free vent for air through the glottis; consequently there is no vibration and no sound produced by the cords.
Moreover, the photographs show that the vocal cords at the break from the lower to the upper register exhibit characteristic changes.
Rarely have I seen human countenances so eloquently vocalwith veneration and love.
Glottis, the slit inclosed between the vocal cords, opening into the trachea.
Of what use are thevocal cords and why are they so muscular?
Glot' tis#, the opening between the vocal cords, or the mouth of the windpipe.
When M, Roussillon ceased speaking the audience again exhausted its vocal resources; and then Father Gibault called upon each man to come forward and solemnly pledge his loyalty to the American cause.
At first they did not hear him, they were so nearly deafened by their own vocal discords.
Lady Durwent, opening the sluice-gates of hervocal production.
But Ned simply had to laugh--he couldn't help it, and when Dorothy and Nat took their places again in the machine Ned was chuckling and gasping in a manner that threatened to do serious damage to his entire vocal apparatus.
Besides the pictures there was to be music--the Brownlie girls played the violin beautifully, and Dorothy was an acknowledged pianist; then Agnes Sinclair was to entertain with monologues, and the boys were to have a vocaldouble quartette.
