+ Am Hist R 26:344 Ja ’21 540w + Am Pol Sci R 14:739 N ’20 50w
“Necessarily, the treatment of the subject is broad but it is marked by a sense of proportion and by genuine insight.”
+ Bookm 52:368 D ’20 120w
MCLELLAN, ELEANOR. Voice education. *$1.75 (7½c) Harper 784.9
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The author claims to have discovered a system of scientific vocal technique through many years of practical research work by beginning with correcting abnormalities of speech and voice action. “This means rectifying conditions such as hoarseness, thickness of the vocal cords and surrounding muscles, nodules, paralyzed vocal cords, loss of high or low notes, stuttering, and all allied phonation and action troubles.” (Preface) The contents are: Breath; Tone versus vowel; Attack and poise of tone; Consonants; Interpretation; Requirements of a great career; Emotions and characteristics of singers.
“Every teacher and singer—and just people—would do well to take the chapter on ‘Emotions and characteristics of the singer’ in this book to heart. But there the practical help of the book to a singer or teacher ends.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p27 O 23 ’20 150w
MACMANUS, SEUMAS. Top o’ the mornin’. *$1.90 (3c) Stokes