The Common Sense of Singing

The Common Sense of Singing is a nine-chapter text that serves as man?s guide to the career of singing.

After a brief presentation of the technical aspects of singing, this book goes on discussing the different contributing factors in singing, including breathing, articulation, tone-color, technique, and style. The subsequent chapters deal with oratorio and opera singing. The remaining chapters consider the mechanical reproductions of the human voice through microphone.

This book is intended primarily to musicians.

Foreword

Introduction

I What is Singing?

II Breathing

III Articulation and Tone-Color

IV Technique

V Style

VI Oratorio

VII Opera

VIII The Voice and the Microphone

IX Singing as a Career

X Epilogue