As the degree of success in singing or speaking depends so far as technique is concerned on a series of co-ordinations the condition of both the psychic and bodily mechanism as determined by training and the general health of the individual is of great importance; and it is not to be forgotten that the mind as well as the body is to be considered in all questions of hygiene. INDEX. A Abdominal muscles, 66 Acoustics, 97 Adam's apple, 80 Adductors, 82 Air, 48 complemental, 70 quantity of, in lungs, 70 residual, 70 supplemental, 70 tidal, 70 Amateurs, 274 American speech, 146 Americans, pitch of, 224 Antagonists, 53 Anatomy, 35 Art, 17, 272 Artist, isolation of, 254 Artistic, 246 perception, 245 temperament, 31 Arytenoid cartilages, 77 Aspirates, 228 Attack, 30, 125, 127, 208 best tests of a good, 129 good, 127, 232 Auditory messages, 250 Auto-laryngoscopy, 109, 110, 152, 161 B "Backward" production, 213 Bel Canto, 211 Break, 162 Breath, 60, 72 control of, 20, 21 exercise for, 133, 134 in phonation, 130 manner of using, 172, 208 stream, 22, 125, 194 Breathing, 44-73, 118, 124 abdominal, 118 clavicular, 118, 119 deep, 63 diaphragmatic, 118, 119 exercises, 131 mechanism, control of, 120 method of, 64, 177 nose, 131 C Cartilage of Santorini, 77 Wrisberg, 77 Cells, 36 Chest, 50, 62, 71 cavity of, 71 complete control of, 62 position of, in singing, 123 in speaking, 123 Children, public appearance of, 116 register of, 234 Choral singing, 247 Choristers, 256 Circulatory system, 37 Clergyman's sore-throat, 88 Cold, a, 77, 92 prevention of, 93 Color, 214 Composers, 116 Consonant, a, 195, 196 Consonants, 223, 225, 226, 230-235 mouth positions of, 226-228 Corsets, evil effects of, 72 Coup de glotte, 124-127, 139 Cramming, 46 Cricoid cartilage, 77, 81 thyroid, 83, 85 membrane, 81 Curwen, 156 D Dialects, 225, 235 Diameters, 50 Diaphragm, 52, 53, 66, 71 E Ear, 182, 236, 245, 248 connection with mouth cavity, 203 drum-head of, 240 external, purpose of, 240 for music, 244 lack of, 245, 249 inner, 237, 241 middle, 237, 241 musical, 31 outer, 237 purpose of, 238 Ease, 123, 233 English, 198 speech, 146 Epiglottis, 79 Eustachian tube, 241 Execution, 179, 256 Exercises, 131-135, 139 practical, 73 Expiration, 49 Expiratory blast, 60, 68, 88, 103, 177 current, 136, 208 Explosives, 226 Expression, 254 F Falsetto, 154 high, 170, 178 in males, 160, 179 "Feeling-tone", 212 Food, 263 "Forward" production, 213 Fundamental principles, 179-194 application of, 195-206 tone, 231 G Garcia, Manuel, 105, 138, 159 German language, 198 speech, 146 Germans, pitch of, 224 Glide, 258 Glottis, 47, 78, 82, 88, 126, 159 in barytone voices, 157 bass voices, 157 contralto voices, 158 mezzo-soprano voices, 158 tenor voices, 157 ligamentous, 157 H Head, position of, 205