local-effort

Updated: May 19, 2025

The result is evident; it is that which is known as the local-effort, muscular school of the nineteenth century; the school which to this day so largely prevails; the school which makes of man a mere vocal machine, instead of a living, emotional, thinking soul. The local-effort school attempts, by direct control and manipulation of muscle and of the vocal parts, to compel the phenomena of voice.

Edmund Myer - The Renaissance of the Vocal Art