This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...style. He is, it may be noted, a keen cricketer, a good rider, and a keen golfer. It is a belief held by a great many people that only those can sing who possess a throat and vocal organs suitable for voice production. Clara Butt does not agree with this at all. "My view," she says, "is that if you are meant to be a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...style. He is, it may be noted, a keen cricketer, a good rider, and a keen golfer. It is a belief held by a great many people that only those can sing who possess a throat and vocal organs suitable for voice production. Clara Butt does not agree with this at all. "My view," she says, "is that if you are meant to be a singer you will be a singer." This view she illustrates from her own experience. When she was studying at the R.C.M. she was constantly being urged to have her tonsils cut. For a long time she held out against it, but at last consented. However, when she was actually seated in the operating chair, the doctor asked her to sing the vowel "e" on a high note. She did, and he remarked upon the way her tonsils contracted as she sang. All at once, she recalled the case of a girl she knew who had lost the ability to sing in tune after her tonsils had been cut. This decided her in an instant: it might be the same in her own case. "I refused to let the operation be performed," she writes, "and from that day to this have never allowed my throat to be tampered with surgically in any way. Yet I have had every sort of a throat that a singer would wish to avoid without my voice being affected in the least. I started life, almost, with diphtheria, have suffered from adenoids, and have experienced several attacks of quinsy. Among myself and my three sisters, all of us being singers, my throat is the worst of the lot and not in the least like a singer's throat. The sister whose voice most nearly resembles mine is the one whose throat is most like mine, and the sister who has a throat and vocal organs which are ideal from an anatomical point of view possesses a soprano voice which, though particularly sweet, is not stro...
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Add this copy of Modern Musicians: a Book for Players, Singers and to cart. $24.49, very good condition, Sold by Alien Bindings rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BALTIMORE, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1914 by T.N. Foulis.
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Very good. 2nd printing; 1914. Tan cloth with gold gilt titles and gold trimmed top edge. The covers look great. The binding is tight. Inscribed front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. A dust jacket is not included. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge. 266 pages.
Add this copy of Modern Musicians: a Book for Players, Singers, and to cart. $35.00, good condition, Sold by Prairie Archives rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, IL, UNITED STATES, published by Le Roy Phillips.
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Good plus or better, light general wear, sunnned spine. Pages lightly browned. Prev owner's stamp, inscriptions and note on front endpapers. Tipped-in real photos.
Add this copy of Modern Musicians to cart. $50.00, like new condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published by Le Roy Phillips.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. (1914) First edition. Tan buckram lettered in gilt, pages uncut; illustrated with 21 tipped on portraits mounted on specially tipped in sheets. Very handsome volume with biographical sketches of composers, conductors, singers, violinists, pianists, cellists. Fine in the very scarce dust dust jacket with shallow chipping at head and foot of spine.
