All vowel sounds, like all tones of the voice, are reinforced sounds. The
tendency of most singers is to sing the reed sounds too white and the flute
sounds too dark. By properly distributing brilliancy and color we influence
and modify all the vowels without losing their character or individuality.
PART THIRD.
_AESTHETICS._
ARTICLE ONE.
THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE OF ARTISTIC SINGING.
The fourth principle of artistic singing is
_Emotional or Self-Expression._
_Theory_.--Vitalized emotional energy, the "Singer's Sensation," is
the true motor power of the voice.
_Devices_.--A study of tone-color and tone-character; the idealized
tone, applied and developed by the use of words and sentiment.
The student of the voice who has studied, understood, and, to a certain
extent, mastered the first three great principles of voice production--the
removal of all restraint, automatic breathing, high placing, and low
resonance--has certainly accomplished much. He has aroused and developed
the physical and mental vitality of the singer, the vitality and energy of
body and mind. This is the limit of progress or development with many, at
least so far as actual tone study is concerned.
There comes a time, however, in the experience of every student of the
voice, a stage of the study, when, if he expects to be an artist, he must
take a step in advance, a step higher; he must place himself upon a higher
plane or level; he must arouse his true inner nature, the singer's
sensation, that which we have called the third power.
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