Coffin's overtones of bel canto phonetic basis of artistic singing : with 100 chromatic vowel-chart exercises / by Berton Coffin.

Author/creator Coffin, Berton
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoMetuchen, NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1980.
Descriptionxviii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 chromatic vowel chart
Subjects

Uniform titleOvertones of bel canto
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- The intelligibility of languages in singing. Vowel sound tracks ; Vowel symbols, English ; Vowel symbols, Italian ; Vowel symbols, French and German ; Degrees of openness ; The vocal organ ; The voice as a stopped pipe ; The very variable pipe ; Knödel remover ; Rhyming ; Registers: resonance tracks ; Register transitions, track switching ; Chromatic vowel chart with loops ; Breath management and resonance tracking ; Practice procedures -- The female voice. Registers of the female voice ; Open your mouth correctly ; The use of chromatic phonetics ; Space chart ; Breath ; Couplings ; Rhyming-zone placing chart ; Sing resonant vowels on the same pitch (spelling) ; Resonance tracking or piping: middle voice ; Coordinating chest and laryngeal muscles, nasality ; Development of head voice, whistle register ; Resonance tracking vowel register, crossovers ; Low notes, contrast of low and high larynx chest sounds ; Strengthening mixed voice, crossovers ; Yodels at the 4th with whistle, crossovers ; Dimple falsetto to head register, vowel to head register transition ; Yodels between mixed, vowel, and head registers, crossovers ; Resonance tracking in chest, middle, mixed ; Arpeggios, bridge mixed and chest voice ; Register transitions in lower passagio, crossovers ; Lower passagio transitions chest, mixed and vowel registers ; Equalizing registers ; Resonance tracking on the vowel register, same series, crossovers ; Strengthening the middle voice, same vowel series, crossovers ; Piping on augmented triad, whole tone, and chromatic scales, mixed and vowel registers ; Runs between head, vowel, and mixed register resonances ; Strengthening mixed voice in lower passagio: piping, crossovers ; Bridging registers by small yodels, chest, middle, and mixed registers ; Floating head voice, head voice for high notes ; Crescendo in vowel and head registers, agility contrasts ; Yodels at the fifth on related vowels of the same resonator (mixed, vowel and middle), agility ; Tracking from high voice: vowel, mixed, medium registers ; Agility, head to mixed to middle voice ; Agility voice placement exercises ; Bridging mixed, middle and head registers, floating ; High notes: whistle and head registers ; Arpeggios to upper notes, agility with piping ; Yodel and piping of scales, vowel to head register ; Soft focus agility (same vowel), clear focus ; Agility, soft palate agility ; Scored vocalizes, dipthing chart ; French nasal chart ; Scoring songs and arias, female voices -- The male voice. Registers of the male voice ; Caruso's exercises with vowel-pitch relationship ; Forms of openings ; Rhyming by crossover tunings ; Space chart ; Rhyming: tone placing chart ; Coordinating and chest and laryngeal muscles ; Ringing and veiled sounds ; Sing the same pitch and spell ; Resonance tracking, chest and upper voice ; Development of mixed voice and falsetto ; Falsetto with vowels behind the hand ; Open mouth hum and arpeggios in mixed and chest voice ; Yodels upper, mixed, chest voice, crossovers ; Mixed voice, high notes for male voices ; Low notes, yodels of 5th, mixed vowel and upper registers ; Vowel pitches, chest voice, falsetto ; Passagio agility exercises, crossovers ; Yodels between upper and vowel registers ; Chest to mixed voice, yodels at major 3rd, upper to vowel to chest register ; Augmented triad, whole tone, chromatic piping ; Messa di voce high notes, Cercar la nota ; Yodeling gold vowels for low and middle range, chest register ; Agility exercises, mixed voice and down ; Pianissimo and forte high notes in mixed and vowel registers, upper voice ; Strengthening the center of the voice ; Substitute vowels on high notes, mixed voice, arpeggios ; Warm-ups by muscular and resonance contrasts ; Resonance tracking in scales, chest voice ; Arpeggios switching tracks from chest to mixed voice, pipe changing through passagios ; Tenor high notes, close and open ; Baritone and bass high notes, close and open ; Passagio exercises to lower voice, mixed registers and chest voice ; Sotto voce, dimple falsetto to upper voice, mixed to chest voice ; Diphthong chart, French nasal chart ; Scoring of songs and arias, male voices -- Singing musculatures and resonances -- The overtones, registers, and phonetics of bel canto.
Abstract The purpose of this book and the chromatic vowel chart is to set forth in acoustic phonetics, register and musical notation, many exercises which will collect and make the voice stronger and more musical according to the precepts of bel canto.
Local noteLittle-300450--305131006070Q
General noteChromatic vowel chart in pocket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
Other titleOvertones of bel canto.
LCCN 80021958
ISBN081081370X

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