A Voice Teacher's Chrestomathy

A Voice Teacher's Chrestomathy

Vowels Control The Breath

A Heterodox View of Breath Management: The Vowel

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Justin Jørgen Petersen
May 10, 2024
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It has become the habit of considering the breath as the only cause for bad or good tone. This is the cause of the eternal breath pressure with which so many singers produce their tones and ruin their voices.

LILLI LEHMANN - 1914.

A recurring theme in the singing literature from the 18th and 19th centuries emphasizes the critical role of vowel pronuncia…

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