which is certainly the highest that you ought to attempt at present.
Exercise No. 2 is a first step towards joining notes, and is another difficulty in the matter of production. The object to be aimed at is to sing the two notes which are bound (or tied) together with the same breath, and the same body and quality of tone. To step from C to E, the first movement in the exercise is to raise the voice a major third; but the student must pass from his mind any notion of raising the throat in order to sound the higher third. As the note E is higher than the C, the tone of the former must be generated lower in the chest than had been the case with the C. The higher the note to be sung, the lower must be its generating-point in the chest. This is the only way to open the voice, and I need scarcely say that it produces an entirely different tone and method than are secured by the common habit of screwing and tightening the throat, in proportion as the notes ascend in pitch.
Another good exercise which may be combined with the last-given is the following:
This exercise (3) must be sung in the same manner as indicated with No. 2, care being taken as each note gets higher to pass under the preceding note, and not as it were to generate a high note over a lower one.
After which you may take this:
