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PRESTON K.
DILLENBECK
P R E S I D E N T
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Kansas
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Voice Culture
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"
'Tis not enough the voice be round and
clear.
'Tis modulation that must charm the ear."
--LLOYD |
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department in this school
receives more careful
attention than this. |
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The most difficult task that falls
to the teacher is the developing and
placing of tones: What to
correct and how to correct it.
To this end lectures on the
Physiology and Hygiene of the voice,
Breathing, Articulation, Pitch and
Resonance are presented to the
pupils early in the course, together
with exercises for the development
of purity, strength, smoothness, and
flexibility of tone. Nearly
every voice, from a variety of
causes, is more or less faulty, and
needs a directing hand to bring it
back to what nature originally in
tended it. Under our method of
teaching, all huskiness and other
difficulties of whatever kind
disappear. Nature never
created a voice to break down.
All public speaking should be of
itself a vocal culture. A
speaker should be able to use his
voice for hours without tiring.
Chronic throat trouble is in nearly
every case the result of misuse or
abuse of the vocal organs. The
voice, when perfectly developed,
will reveal with accuracy the exact
state or condition of the mind.
Add to this a keen conception and
earnest appreciation of the author's
meaning -- good expression will
follow. We strive for the
natural, not the mechanical. |
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INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS
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"
Art is not mere techincal skill -- it is the
human echo of nature."
--PERRY |
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Voice and action are simply the means for
the expression of thought and feeling.
Though the importance of their proper
culture is unquestioned, yet they will avail
but little unless prompted by keep
appreciation and a thorough understanding of
the author's meaning.
The mechanical must always yield to the
intellectual, hence much time is devoted to
interpretation and analysis, that the action
may be suited to the word. The student
is taught to think, to feel, and to express
the thought without destroying his
individuality. This work refines the
taste, kindles and directs the emotions and
strengthens the imagination. |
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Studio
Building, N. W. Corner Ninth and Locust Sts.
Kansas City,
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