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Teachers will do well to encourage their pupils to hear the best singers; for do not students need inspiration as well as discipline? Granted that the ear can at once determine what register the pupil herself or another singer may be using, what other guide has she? There are certain sensations, as already said, felt within the resonance-chambers and larynx, which are sure guides.
For the formation of each vowel a definite form of the resonance-chambers is essential. The pitch of this vowel is very low. Shows the position of parts in sounding the vowel a. By comparing this illustration with those following, the relatively greater size of the cavity of the mouth in this case will be evident. The pitch of this vowel is higher than is that of the more open a.
It is a cardinal error to begin a course in speaking and especially singing with exercises based on words. Vowel sounds should be exclusively employed at first. In the formation of vowels and consonants the resonance-chambers are especially involved.
To some Nature has been generous they have large chests; to others she has given a smaller wind-chest, but has perhaps compensated by providing an especially fine voice-box. Happy are they who have both, and thrice happy those who have all three requirements: a fine chest, a well-constructed larynx, and beautifully formed resonance-chambers.
The shape of the resonance-chambers varies in the formation of vowels and consonants, which may be classified accordingly, or according to their pitch. Practical implications for singing and speaking, the learning of foreign languages, the study of dialects, etc.
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