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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 16 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 39912 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 voice 9 tone 9 singer 6 vocal 6 illustration 5 singing 5 italian 4 teacher 4 Mr. 3 time 3 note 3 music 3 Voice 3 Dr. 3 CHAPTER 2 work 2 throat 2 register 2 musical 2 muscle 2 method 2 larynx 2 great 2 good 2 breath 2 art 2 York 2 Paris 2 New 2 Metropolitan 2 Madame 2 Italy 2 America 1 thought 1 thing 1 sound 1 section 1 resonance 1 quality 1 production 1 play 1 piano 1 phrase 1 nature 1 movement 1 mind 1 ligament 1 high 1 head 1 french Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4029 voice 2883 tone 2448 singer 1315 time 1283 singing 1282 teacher 965 part 949 music 930 breath 886 way 795 work 750 art 747 year 730 muscle 722 student 708 thing 672 register 668 method 661 action 647 day 646 boy 638 exercise 632 word 628 one 617 note 603 production 596 quality 590 throat 585 result 577 pupil 569 study 540 case 518 man 506 air 497 song 497 organ 496 chest 494 illustration 494 idea 491 practice 488 fact 482 artist 479 opera 479 head 477 sound 472 use 460 vowel 456 larynx 448 body 447 hand Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 7937 _ 338 Mr. 313 Voice 182 New 181 America 176 Dr. 156 York 156 Miss 134 Vocal 131 CHAPTER 118 Opera 110 Mme 107 Vesta 107 C 106 Italy 105 DOMINIE 102 opera 102 English 102 Culture 99 Madame 94 J. 87 Singing 87 Metropolitan 87 London 84 Paris 82 Rejoice 81 Nature 81 Master 80 Garcia 77 Wagner 76 W. 76 Melody 73 Schumann 73 FIG 71 Science 71 God 68 de 67 Italian 64 Musick 63 c. 63 Sol 62 Scholar 62 Behnke 60 Time 60 Mrs. 60 MRS 60 IV 58 II 57 F 57 C. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 7144 it 4776 i 2913 he 2325 they 2071 you 1547 we 1345 she 1282 them 796 me 761 him 511 one 384 us 382 her 379 himself 258 itself 246 themselves 161 myself 111 herself 70 yourself 33 ourselves 12 mine 11 yours 7 oneself 6 theirs 5 ours 4 ye 4 ''em 3 thee 3 je 3 his 3 hers 2 yourselves 2 ya 2 whosoever 2 tympanum 2 thyself 2 pl 1 you,--mannered 1 wine,-- 1 whereof 1 there,--you 1 said''t 1 practised:-- 1 power,--are 1 oo 1 me?----none 1 lover 1 ha 1 alas,"--with Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 27140 be 6299 have 2846 do 1784 make 1538 sing 1172 say 1143 give 1068 know 954 take 835 come 767 use 756 go 713 produce 710 see 706 find 678 hear 678 become 614 learn 548 singe 542 think 482 let 477 seem 458 follow 455 speak 443 study 443 call 439 begin 435 play 424 feel 409 get 402 bring 395 teach 385 hold 384 require 365 consider 349 tell 338 try 331 keep 326 mean 322 understand 301 show 293 write 266 work 260 develop 257 look 255 put 250 form 248 place 248 carry 245 train Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4867 not 2105 vocal 1765 so 1629 more 1522 great 1341 only 1306 well 1249 very 1237 good 1113 most 1087 other 990 much 961 many 939 first 890 as 842 high 835 then 761 same 734 musical 732 little 732 even 719 up 710 never 710 always 691 such 676 now 654 out 635 too 617 also 501 long 498 old 496 low 488 own 486 often 466 few 427 correct 418 certain 410 just 394 true 389 far 386 important 380 possible 376 however 372 necessary 368 here 367 muscular 352 perfect 345 beautiful 344 mechanical 344 different Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 433 good 280 most 241 great 223 least 191 high 61 low 43 Most 40 slight 37 fine 37 bad 22 simple 17 deep 16 late 16 easy 15 large 15 full 14 small 14 early 13 soft 9 wide 8 young 8 strong 7 eld 6 loud 6 hard 5 quick 5 pure 5 heavy 5 clear 4 sure 4 noble 4 near 4 minute 4 mere 4 manif 4 long 4 happy 4 fit 4 close 4 big 4 able 3 true 3 sharp 3 rare 3 keen 3 farth 3 busy 2 weak 2 short 2 safe Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 833 most 54 well 31 least 2 highest 1 worst 1 greatest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.net 1 en.wikipedia.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/0/6/20069/20069-h/20069-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/0/6/20069/20069-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/4/9/19493/19493-h/19493-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/4/9/19493/19493-h.zip 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 one does not 12 voice is not 10 singers do not 9 singer does not 8 tone is not 8 voice is so 7 _ do _ 7 _ sing _ 7 art is not 6 production is not 6 singer is not 5 _ is not 5 singing is _ 5 singing is not 5 tone is something 5 voice does not 4 _ is _ 4 _ thought _ 4 action is correct 4 muscles are too 4 music is not 4 one has ever 4 production is _ 4 singers are not 4 singers are so 4 teachers do not 4 things being equal 4 voice is beautiful 4 voice is different 4 voice is especially 3 _ hear _ 3 _ see _ 3 action has never 3 action is not 3 art is delicate 3 art is long 3 boys do not 3 breath becomes voice 3 breath is not 3 method is not 3 methods are not 3 muscles are not 3 one is so 3 registers is not 3 singer is able 3 singers are often 3 singers find so 3 teacher does not 3 time is devoted 3 tone is properly Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 voice is not so 1 _ are not able 1 _ have no relation 1 _ have not power 1 _ hears no more 1 _ is not easily 1 _ is not pleasing 1 action has no place 1 action is not better 1 arts are not liable 1 boys are not plentiful 1 boys took no part 1 breath has no influence 1 day have no notion 1 day is not sufficient 1 exercises is not enough 1 method is not necessarily 1 methods are not truly 1 muscles are not part 1 muscles are not sufficiently 1 music is not always 1 music is not necessarily 1 music is not yet 1 one has no idea 1 one has no notion 1 one is no longer 1 one is not strong 1 ones are not readily 1 ones are not yet 1 production are not altogether 1 production has no reference 1 production has not really 1 production is not everything 1 production is not right 1 quality is no less 1 quality is not right 1 register is not much 1 registers is not haphazard 1 result is not equal 1 results are not forthcoming 1 results is not so 1 singer does not consciously 1 singer has no conscience 1 singer has no time 1 singer is no longer 1 singer is not aware 1 singer is not sure 1 singer was not satisfied 1 singers are not always 1 singers are not apt A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 30889 author = Behnke, Emil title = The Mechanism of the Human Voice date = keywords = Behnke; Mr.; Mus; Price; Thick; Voice; illustration; ligament; muscle; musical; tone; vocal summary = tone-producing element as the "Vocal Ligaments." voice, because in inspiration the air strikes the vocal ligaments to the larynx, and the tone of the vocal ligaments will be intensified, sing a pure vocal tone, and the mirror will remain perfectly tone is produced by the vibrations of the vocal ligaments. When singing in what is called chest-voice the voicebox rises gradually As soon as we produce a tone, the pyramids, and with them the vocal Every time we take breath, the pyramids with the vocal ligaments recede, Formation of the Vowel-tones and the Registers of the Female Voice. male voice, the vocal ligaments alone act in forming the sound, and are but by the shield-pyramid muscles which press the vocal ligaments more [Illustration: musical notation] in the female voice, and in the male tones of the Upper Thick, when the tension of the vocal ligaments is vocal ligaments in producing voice, with especial reference to the id = 15446 author = Brower, Harriette title = Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others date = keywords = America; English; Italy; Lehmann; Madame; Metropolitan; Mme; Mr.; New; York; italian; singer; tone; vocal; voice; work summary = studied and worked, I would be able one day to sing in such a way as to Italian operas required little or no action, only beautiful singing. master vocal art, the singer must have so developed his voice that it is "Young singers ask me what vowels to use in vocal practice. how necessary it is for the singer to do daily work on the voice, I To ask such a natural born singer how she studies and works, is like singer with a good natural voice, who takes her tones correctly, who How many of our great singers began their musical studies of the voice." The singer illustrated the idea with a short musical think if they have a good natural voice and take singing lessons, that in the middle of her voice--always the best way--and sings a whole tone vocal art, the singer must have so developed his voice that it is under id = 20069 author = Caruso, Enrico title = Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing date = keywords = Caruso; breath; great; note; singer; throat; tone; voice summary = been written on breathing, tone production and what singers should eat Open the throat wide and start your note by the pressure breath. From the minute the singer starts to emit a tone the supply of breath pronounce the tones on a note in the easiest part of your voice. eventually the head voice will be joined to the breath, and a faint note singer with this voice production usually concentrates her entire If the singer''s health is good the voice should end only with life voice, first singing with the mouth closed and relying entirely on very In singing in public as well as when practicing the singer must stand so The "throaty" voice comes from singing with the throat insufficiently If the singer gives much of himself as well as of his voice to the sings with good breath support the more beautiful the voice becomes. id = 19493 author = Clippinger, D. A. (David Alva) title = The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing date = keywords = art; exercise; illustration; quality; singer; singing; teacher; thing; tone; vocal; voice summary = tone quality, and the astounding thing about the human voice is that for moving appeal in the pure singing tone of the human voice that cannot singer must form the pitch, power, and quality of each tone as he uses tone throughout his vocal compass his voice is placed, and it is not the voice means the development of the musical mentality and at best is Again, the human voice can produce such a variety of tone qualities that voice production and disappear as the singer learns to produce his upper In preparing the head voice the student must begin with a tone that is voice teachers usually believe in direct control of the vocal organs. In voice production it means the perfect tone concept. same way the vocal student must hear mentally the pure singing tone an untrained voice and attempts to make it produce a musical tone. id = 33358 author = Cooke, James Francis title = Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists date = keywords = America; BIOGRAPHICAL; Gounod; House; Italy; MME; Metropolitan; New; Opera; Paris; Schumann; York; french; good; great; illustration; italian; singer; singing; time; vocal; voice; work summary = singers and, later, in teaching voice for many years, formed a machine company, a man whose acquaintance with great singers of the time famous singers in the great opera house with the minutest attention, My advice to the voice students of America is to hear great singers. The American student with a really good voice and a really fine vocal work that many native Italian singers with realty fine voices are when a new singer comes to me and wants to sing _Tosca_ or some rôle the case at one time in America that a singer with a great reputation Opera House in New York was so great that at the time I made my début opera singer in the great opera houses of the world rarely sings more The opera singer naturally gets tired of singing a few rôles the voice and trains the singer technically to do great things. id = 32023 author = Curwen, J. Spencer (John Spencer) title = The Boy''s Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys'' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. date = keywords = Dr.; Mr.; Sol; Tonic; boy; illustration; voice summary = A BOOK OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION ON THE TRAINING OF BOYS'' VOICES FOR "Our best solo boy, who has a splendid voice and who sings beautifully, I try a new boy''s voice at the choir practice. boys, by singing quietly, to glide the chest voice into the upper the choir-boy, it is not worth while to teach him to sing by note. new lot of choir boys will be liable to sing flat, and to lower their obtain choir-boys, adult men learned to sing alto, and even low treble adult altos in my choir I should not think of using boys'' voices. indeed do I hear boy altos sing with sweet voices and true intonation, "In part-singing where there are boy trebles, the adult male alto voice I have trained boys to sing alto in is the custom in some choirs to make a boy sing alto as soon as his id = 21400 author = Haslam, W. E. title = Style in Singing date = keywords = Act; Gluck; Handel; Paris; Verdi; composer; italian; music; musical; phrase; singer; voice summary = basic principles of Style to the vocal music of the German, French, successfully the music of Falstaff, in Verdi''s opera, as is necessary if the musical phrasing be judiciously combined with a change in phrasing is good and effective, especially if the artist changes at of the classics confined to the vocal parts of the music composed by [Music: (Original Italian version, as written for Vienna.) accuse artists of introducing changes, of not performing the music as the composers'' music listen to the following phrase, sung as it is Composers and dramatic authors, in fact, _create_ their art-works; but (Italian), and means the changing of the notes or contour of a musical word "His," to which it belongs, while the composer''s music remains gifted artist, possessing a voice of very great compass, was enabled musical phrases or ideas to the work; but that his practical knowledge id = 19116 author = Lehmann, Lilli title = How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] date = keywords = breath; head; high; illustration; resonance; section; singer; tone; voice summary = tongue, or palate, or in the organs that furnish the breath pressure. Red lines denote division of the breath in palatal resonance, lower for the highest tone, sing the figure to its end, toward the nose, large resonating chamber thus formed yields tones that are powerful the organs of breathing, the position of the larynx, of the tongue, sing in a high vocal range, I can plainly feel the larynx rise and In singing very high head tones I have certain position of the vocal organs--larynx, tongue, and palate. With every tone that the singer has to sing, he must always head and falsetto tones, which are without any palatal resonance and the breath,--except in the very highest head tones,--around which it By this exercise the form for the breath, tone, and word, in _ah-e-[=a]_, larynx, tongue, and palatal position on the lowest tone id = 30854 author = Miller, Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) title = The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation date = keywords = CHAPTER; Dr.; breathing; cord; italian; larynx; method; music; note; register; singer; tone; vocal; voice summary = singers the physical action of the vocal organs and of all the resonance singing involves complete physiological control of the voice-producing voice produced on breath that is under the singer''s control and that Every vocal tone is, in fact, a mental concept reproduced as voice by the physical organs of voice-production, so that every vocal tone is, voice) calls for an extraordinary change in the adjustment of the vocal vocal apparatus required for their production, and not by voice-quality. to produce the lower notes of one register with the vocal adjustment function of the vocal tract below and above the cords simply to voice male voice, especially in the lowest tones of the chest register, that register, however, produces in the alto voice a tone that is rich for alto voice; and when singing in chest or head register, an alto their natural singing range, is in the middle register, and the tones id = 19880 author = Mills, Wesley title = Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) date = keywords = CHAPTER; FIG; Madame; Seiler; band; illustration; larynx; muscle; production; register; singer; sound; tone; vocal; voice summary = effect--Forms of general exercise for the voice-user--Summary 62 Vocal bands and resonance-chambers compared--Improvised mechanism to practice as related to ease--The registers of the speaking voice The vocal bands during the production of a high-pitched tone 138 voice-training essential, if artistic results are to follow; neither breath-control so essential to good singing and speaking. Like the nose the larynx, and especially the vocal bands, may The larynx is the most important organ in voice-production, and muscles most in use in ordinary speech and in singing the lower tones. The tone caused by the vibration of two such small bands as the vocal of quality in the voice, and change of mechanism in the vocal singing and speaking the student learn to begin his voice-production any singer of whatever voice; while for speakers high tones are really cases to the vocal organs, while good voice-production strengthens id = 12856 author = Myer, Edmund J. (Edmund John) title = The Renaissance of the Vocal Art A Practical Study of Vitality, Vitalized Energy, of the Physical, Mental and Emotional Powers of the Singer, through Flexible, Elastic Bodily Movements date = keywords = artistic; movement; nature; singing; tone; voice summary = Practical Stand-Point," "Voice-Training Exercises" (a study of the natural movements of the voice), "Vocal Reinforcement," "Position and Action in singing, which are freedom of form and action, spontaneity and naturalness. true art of voice is to study the conditions which allow these phenomena to devices used to study natural laws, to develop the God-given powers of the conditions of tone; movements which allow the voice to sing spontaneously. These movements develop in a common-sense way the power of natural forces, to be the level of the tone let the voice sing. which secure the true conditions of tone and automatic breath-control. is the great movement for developing the low tones of all voices. way all true conditions are secured, and the voice is allowed to sing as a rule, upon freedom of voice and the true conditions of tone as before Sing a tone, about the middle of the voice, without other thought than that id = 7824 author = Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe title = Melody : The Story of a Child date = keywords = Arthenay; Brown; Dale; Dr.; Melody; Miss; Rejoice; Rosin; Vesta; child summary = Melody''s voice came in like a wave of sound, filling the room with "It''s like the foreign birds they tell about!" said Miss Rejoice, "Martha Penny has a sharp way, Melody," said Miss Rejoice; "but she "Why, Vesta Dale, how you do talk!" said Miss Rejoice, and then they But stop," he added, as the child, after touching Miss Vesta''s hand "Good-by, Doctor," cried the child, joyously, turning her bright face "Melody," he said tenderly, taking the child on his knee,--"little "Why, Vesta!" said Miss Rejoice''s soft voice; "how you do talk!" Melody passed her hand rapidly over the old man''s face, and then "Yes, Mr. De Arthenay," said Miss Vesta, "do play a little for us, "I should like to know what you can do about it," said Miss Vesta, wonderful voice; and one day she had come home and told Miss Rejoice id = 21957 author = Taylor, David C. (David Clark) title = The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern date = keywords = Culture; Garcia; Science; Vocal; Voice; action; chapter; italian; method; singing; teacher; throat; tone summary = instruction in singing and the actual methods of vocal teachers. the vocal action is obtained by attentive listening to voices, and in no the voice separately;--when the correct vocal cord action had been of tone; they instruct their pupils to sing low notes in one quality, empirical precept, "Sing with open throat." Several vocal theorists take MECHANICAL VOCAL MANAGEMENT AS THE BASIS OF VOICE CULTURE MECHANICAL VOCAL MANAGEMENT AS THE BASIS OF VOICE CULTURE vocal-cord action, for forward emission of tone, and for control of the Voice Culture must be turned from the idea of mechanical vocal classes of muscular sensation of vocal tone, direct and sympathetic, are vocal mechanism, obtained through the attentive listening to voices. throughout all vocal training the teacher listens to the pupil''s voice. correct vocal action and any other manner of tone-production. the vocal organs and to the mechanical operations of the voice. id = 26477 author = Tosi, Pier Francesco title = Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers date = keywords = Airs; Appoggiatura; Cadences; Manner; Master; Musick; Scholar; Shake; Time; Voice; art; note; singer summary = attend him: Let a Singer have a Fund of Knowledge sufficient to perform Let the Master attend with great Care to the Voice of the Scholar, In the same Lessons, let him teach the Art to put forth the Voice, that they understand the Art of Singing better than the Singers. If the Master hastens insensibly the Time when the Scholar sings Let the Scholar not be suffered to sing _Divisions_ with Let the modern Master learn to make use of this Advice, for Action by the Singer, the Master is obliged to teach the Scholar a The most necessary Study for singing _Airs_ in Perfection, and Generally speaking, the Study of the Singers of the present Times I do not know if a perfect Singer can at the same time be a Where Knowledge with Study makes one a good Singer, Ignorance with id = 37662 author = Tubbs, Frank Herbert title = Seed Thoughts for Singers date = keywords = CHAPTER; body; come; good; mind; music; teacher; thought; time; voice summary = Heart and Intellect, 54; Time Ends Not, 55; Power of Thought, 56; Nature Good, 84; Little Things Affect, 85; Musical Library, 86; Change of A singing teacher, passing along, noticed the rich voice of the line of development to follow in bringing into use the singing voice. had in mind the opportunity which the music teacher has to do good. A teacher of voice and singing who does not believe his way is the best into voice and music, thus making better their ability. teacher feels every little while as if his good way were slipping from long time, much longer than it takes to sing any phrase in music which It will come to any man who is doing good work and living a teacher''s mind can be made upon the pupil in two seasons of study if it body enter into voice culture, where they are and how they work. id = 16658 author = Wieck, Friedrich title = Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances date = keywords = Beethoven; Chopin; DOMINIE; Emma; Lizzie; MRS; Mr.; piano; play; singing; teacher; time summary = teach you a great deal of it in a different way, and every time I shall acquire a fine touch on the piano; that is, to make the tones sound as singing, as a necessary foundation for piano-playing. advance the age; have heard every thing great and fine in music, and sing when papa played the flute, said, "What ridiculous little things just as singing-teachers rely upon the culture of a fine tone, in order has been acquired, it is of no use to talk about a fine singing tone. musical culture, with special reference to piano-playing. music, to play this piece, even if it is done quite mechanically, two or chords, which allow time to bring out the singing tone, in which Three trifles are essential for a good piano or singing-teacher,-EXTRAVAGANCES IN SINGING AND PIANO-PLAYING. EXTRAVAGANCES IN SINGING AND PIANO-PLAYING. Where did he learn piano-playing?