Physical and Vocal Training

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Physical and Vocal Training: For School Use and for Private Instruction This manual is prepared in response to repeated requests for some written embodiment of the method of Vocal and Physical Culture practised by the writer during the last ten years, and taught in the Boston public schools, under his supervision, for three years past. It is with no little hesitation that he attempts the difficult task of conveying by printed words that which requires the living voice for its proper exemplification. It is impossible to prescribe an inflexible course of instruction. - one which will not require the ingenuity of the teacher to adapt it to individual cases. Nevertheless, even an imperfect outline - and this assumes to be nothing more - will serve as a guide to those who wish to adopt, to any extent, this mode of training. For the faults and imperfections in these pages the writer is alone responsible: and he would not claim an undue share of credit for anything of worth which the work may contain. He has availed himself of the labors of the numerous investigators who have preceded him in these fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.