A Cumulative Bibliography for Vocal Pedagogy 402Y/511Y
University of Western Ontario

Coffin, Berton. Historical Vocal Pedagogy Classics. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1989. [posthumous] (MT820.C644 1989)

Garcia, Manuel. Hints on Singing (1894). New York: Joseph Petelson Music House, 1982.

Grout, Donald Jay. A Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. (ML1700.G73 2003)

Hines, Jerome. Great Singers on Great Singing. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1982.

Miller Richard. The Structure of Singing. New York: Schirmir Books, 1986. (MT825.M646 1986)

Miller Richard. Training Tenor Voices. New York, Toronto: Schirmer Books, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, c1993. (MT820.M6 1993)

Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-164) and index. Performance demands on the tenor exceed those of every other vocal category, often necessitating more vocal stamina and greater dramatic subtlety. Moreover, teaching the several categories of the tenor voice presents teachers of singing with a series of problems not encountered with any other voice type. The tenor voice remains, in short, a mystery to most audiences and teachers alike. Training Tenor Voices presents a unique combination of historical and pedagogical information on how tenors sing. Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals, the book places emphasis on the special nature of the tenor voice and the proper physiological functioning that leads to the establishment of vocal

proficiency. It supplies practical information on instruction for each category of the tenor voice; recommends the kinds of literature to sing and to avoid; and provides an effective system for voice building, including registration factors, techniques for breath coordination, vowel modification ("covering"), resonance balancing, range extension, the development of vocal agility, and maintaining the high tessitura and sostenuto. The book also includes dozens of technical exercises; numerous anatomical illustrations; musical examples; the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols; unique spectrographic analyses of such famous tenors as Jussi Bjoerling, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti; a glossary of terms; and a bibliography.

Ristad, Eloise. A Soprano on Her Head. Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1982.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. History of Opera. London: MacMillan, 1989. (ML1700.H58 1989)

Stark James. Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (ML1460.S695 1999)

Sundberg, Johan. The Science of the Singing Voice. Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987. MT821.S913 1987

Weisstein, Ulrich, ed. The Essence of Opera. New York: W.W.Norton & Co. Inc., 1969. (ML1700.W45)