It is, therefore, through the Chautauqua work that I have been impressed with the importance of placing this system in a plainer and more definite way, if possible, before the vocal world.
PART SECOND.
VITALITY.
ARTICLE ONE.
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF ARTISTIC TONE—PRODUCTION.
The first principle of artistic tone-production is
The Removal of All Restraint.
The theory founded upon this principle is as follows: Correct tone is the result of certain conditions demanded by Nature, not man's ideas. These conditions are dependent upon form and adjustment; and form and adjustment, to be right, must be automatic, and not the result of direct or local effort.