Lecture on scientific voice production and breathing exercises : their relation to health / delivered by Cortlandt MacMahon.

  • MacMahon, Cortlandt.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Lecture on scientific voice production and breathing exercises : their relation to health / delivered by Cortlandt MacMahon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    SCIENTIFIC VOICE PRODUCTION AND BREATHING EXERCISES: THEIR RELATION TO HEALTH. The subject of my lecture is “ Scientific Voice Pro- duction and Breathing Exercises and their Relation to Health,” and I am going to endeavour to show you that health, proper breathing, and voice are all three closely connected with each other. One dannot have a voice that is resonant and capable of doing a large amount of wmrk unless the health is good and the breath- ing apparatus managed as it should be ; and if one can succeed in getting a voice that does its work efficiently, then one can be fairly confident that the bodily health is in a satisfactory condition, and one can go still further and say that a really magnificent voice invariably accompanies a splendid condition of health. One knows, of course, that it is possible to have the most magnificent health and at the same time possess a voice that is weak or very far from being melodious, and therefore one that is very unpleasant to listen to, although this is more or less easily remedied by proper training ; but the converse is impossible, and one cannot have a voice that is capable of proper work unless the health is good and the digestion what it ought to be.