Copyright, 1921, by Theo. Presser Co.
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CONTENTS

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Introduction[5]
The Technic of Operatic Production[21]
What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career [Frances Alda][31]
Modern Vocal Methods in Italy[Pasquale Amato][38]
The Main Elements of Interpretation[David Bispham][45]
Success in Concert Singing[Dame Clara Butt][58]
The Value of Self-Study in Voice Training[Giuseppe Campanari][68]
Italy, the Home of Song[Enrico Caruso][79]
Modern Roads To Vocal Success[Julia Claussen][90]
Self-Help in Voice Study[Charles Dalmores][100]
If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera[Andreas Dippel][110]
How a Great Master Coached Opera Singers[Emma Eames][121]
The Open Door To Opera[Florence Easton][133]
What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna?[Geraldine Farrar][144]
The Master Songs of Robert Schumann[Johanna Gadski][154]
Teaching Yourself to Sing[Amelita Galli-Curci][166]
The Know How in the Art of Singing[Mary Garden][176]
Building a Vocal Repertoire[Alma Gluck][185]
Opportunities for Young Concert Singers[Emilio de Gogorza][191]
Thoroughness in Vocal Preparation[Frieda Hempel][200]
Common Sense in Training and Preserving the Voice[Dame Nellie Melba][207]
Secrets of Bel Canto[Bernice de Pasquali][217]
How Fortunes Are Wasted in Vocal Education[Marcella Sembrich][227]
Keeping the Voice in Prime Condition[Ernestine Schumann-Heink] [235]
Italian Opera in America[Antonio Scotti][251]
The Singer's Larger Musical Public[Henri Scott][260]
Singing in Concert and What It Means[Emma Thursby][269]
New Aspects of the Art of Singing in America[Reinald Werrenrath][283]
How I Regained a Lost Voice[Evan Williams][292]

INTRODUCTION

Vocal Gold Mines and How They are Developed

Plutarch tells how a Laconian youth picked all the feathers from the scrawny body of a nightingale and when he saw what a tiny thing was left exclaimed,

"Surely thou art all voice
and nothing else!"