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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 7 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 462 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 voice 4 illustration 3 vocal 3 tone 3 singing 3 singer 3 music 3 italian 2 time 2 teacher 2 sound 2 good 2 Voice 2 Paris 2 CHAPTER 1 work 1 throat 1 thought 1 resonance 1 register 1 production 1 phrase 1 nasal 1 musical 1 muscle 1 mind 1 method 1 larynx 1 great 1 french 1 exercise 1 composer 1 come 1 chapter 1 breath 1 boy 1 body 1 band 1 action 1 York 1 Vocal 1 Verdi 1 Tonic 1 Sol 1 Seiler 1 Science 1 Schumann 1 Piano 1 Opera 1 New Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2099 voice 1481 tone 1237 singer 816 teacher 758 singing 669 time 606 music 595 boy 524 part 507 student 505 work 480 action 475 exercise 455 method 451 muscle 439 breath 430 year 375 case 372 way 368 production 363 art 356 sound 349 quality 346 pupil 344 result 343 practice 340 register 339 resonance 337 throat 333 organ 322 ear 322 air 315 illustration 303 training 300 opera 300 idea 298 use 295 study 291 word 289 vowel 283 day 281 chest 276 fact 268 instruction 267 subject 265 one 263 mouth 259 breathing 256 mind 253 body Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3704 _ 213 Voice 154 Mr. 114 America 110 New 105 York 105 CHAPTER 104 Culture 95 Dr. 93 Vocal 77 London 75 Opera 68 FIG 67 opera 66 Garcia 64 J. 63 Science 58 Wagner 58 Paris 57 Mme 55 Schumann 55 Hung 53 de 51 Singing 50 W. 49 Madame 48 Metropolitan 48 Gounod 48 English 48 C 47 II 46 Sol 45 koo 44 VOICE 41 Italy 41 H. 41 C. 39 F. 37 fa 37 ee 37 R. 37 M. 36 throat 35 Tonic 35 IV 33 Tosi 32 F 31 la 31 Sir 31 MME Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2928 it 1582 i 1221 he 926 they 612 we 466 them 392 you 330 she 297 me 273 him 217 one 181 us 176 himself 118 itself 90 themselves 78 her 38 myself 23 herself 16 ourselves 15 yourself 7 yours 6 ye 5 ours 4 oneself 3 je 2 tympanum 2 thyself 2 mine 1 power,--are 1 lover 1 ''em Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 14142 be 2874 have 1193 do 844 make 710 sing 566 give 454 say 446 know 438 take 433 use 354 produce 347 come 344 become 333 find 306 follow 300 hear 294 singe 280 go 270 speak 267 seem 252 see 247 learn 228 consider 219 hold 202 show 200 think 198 bring 195 get 181 study 181 call 180 teach 180 feel 179 require 179 let 178 begin 171 write 156 train 150 keep 143 apply 141 mean 140 develop 138 understand 131 acquire 130 tell 130 lead 129 carry 128 place 126 work 124 determine 123 listen Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2095 not 1302 vocal 835 more 830 so 807 great 710 good 676 well 668 very 663 only 595 most 575 other 480 many 470 much 460 musical 450 first 392 same 383 as 369 then 364 such 349 even 329 high 323 also 311 muscular 306 little 298 up 295 out 274 never 272 now 270 mechanical 260 always 254 few 251 old 251 important 246 own 240 long 239 often 233 correct 229 certain 215 too 213 low 206 far 195 possible 195 perfect 193 necessary 189 modern 186 just 173 less 171 italian 169 true 166 natural Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 262 good 166 most 121 great 93 least 86 high 21 Most 20 low 17 fine 16 slight 16 bad 11 simple 11 full 10 large 10 early 9 wide 9 late 9 deep 8 small 8 easy 5 quick 5 heavy 4 soft 4 loud 4 hard 3 young 3 true 3 sure 3 strong 3 pure 3 noble 3 minute 3 fit 3 close 3 big 2 weak 2 rare 2 near 2 mere 2 happy 2 clear 2 busy 2 broad 2 able 1 wr 1 wise 1 wild 1 three,--ch 1 sweet 1 strange 1 sound Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 429 most 33 well 19 least 1 worst 1 highest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 voice is not 7 singer does not 5 voice does not 4 _ sing _ 4 muscles are too 4 practice makes perfect 4 singing is not 4 teachers do not 4 tone is not 3 _ do _ 3 _ is _ 3 _ thought _ 3 action does not 3 action has never 3 action is correct 3 art is delicate 3 boys do not 3 methods are not 3 production is not 3 voice do not 3 voice is capable 3 voice is especially 2 _ see _ 2 _ singing _ 2 action has ever 2 action is always 2 action is very 2 art is not 2 boys is well 2 exercise is always 2 exercises are not 2 exercises is not 2 muscles are fully 2 muscles are not 2 muscles take place 2 music is not 2 production is thus 2 quality is not 2 registers is very 2 singer has only 2 singer is able 2 singer was not 2 singers are not 2 singers are now 2 singers are often 2 singers are so 2 singing becomes more 2 sound is due 2 teacher was j. 2 teachers are thoroughly Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 voice is not so 1 _ are not able 1 _ brings no fatigue 1 action has no place 1 boys are not plentiful 1 boys took no part 1 breath has no influence 1 case is not easy 1 exercises is not enough 1 method is not necessarily 1 methods are not truly 1 methods make no allowance 1 muscles are not part 1 music is not necessarily 1 practice is not only 1 practice was not correct 1 production has no reference 1 production has not really 1 production is not everything 1 pupil is not too 1 pupil were not satisfied 1 quality is not right 1 register is not much 1 result is not equal 1 results are not forthcoming 1 results is not so 1 singer does not consciously 1 singer has no time 1 singer is no longer 1 singer is not aware 1 singer was not satisfied 1 singers are not surprising 1 singing is not merely 1 singing is not sufficient 1 sound has not sufficient 1 sound is not absolutely 1 student has not already 1 student is no better 1 teachers did not immediately 1 teachers have no adequate 1 throat does not usually 1 tone has no weight 1 tone is not everything 1 tone is not nasal 1 tone is not necessarily 1 tones are not usually 1 voice are not yet 1 voice gives no impression 1 voice had not yet 1 voice is no exception A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 33358 author = Cooke, James Francis title = Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists date = keywords = America; BIOGRAPHICAL; Gounod; House; Italy; MME; Metropolitan; New; Opera; Paris; Schumann; York; french; good; great; illustration; italian; singer; singing; time; vocal; voice; work summary = singers and, later, in teaching voice for many years, formed a machine company, a man whose acquaintance with great singers of the time famous singers in the great opera house with the minutest attention, My advice to the voice students of America is to hear great singers. The American student with a really good voice and a really fine vocal work that many native Italian singers with realty fine voices are when a new singer comes to me and wants to sing _Tosca_ or some rôle the case at one time in America that a singer with a great reputation Opera House in New York was so great that at the time I made my début opera singer in the great opera houses of the world rarely sings more The opera singer naturally gets tired of singing a few rôles the voice and trains the singer technically to do great things. id = 32023 author = Curwen, J. Spencer (John Spencer) title = The Boy''s Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys'' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. date = keywords = Dr.; Mr.; Sol; Tonic; boy; illustration; voice summary = A BOOK OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION ON THE TRAINING OF BOYS'' VOICES FOR "Our best solo boy, who has a splendid voice and who sings beautifully, I try a new boy''s voice at the choir practice. boys, by singing quietly, to glide the chest voice into the upper the choir-boy, it is not worth while to teach him to sing by note. new lot of choir boys will be liable to sing flat, and to lower their obtain choir-boys, adult men learned to sing alto, and even low treble adult altos in my choir I should not think of using boys'' voices. indeed do I hear boy altos sing with sweet voices and true intonation, "In part-singing where there are boy trebles, the adult male alto voice I have trained boys to sing alto in is the custom in some choirs to make a boy sing alto as soon as his id = 19138 author = Fillebrown, Thomas title = Resonance in Singing and Speaking date = keywords = London; Piano; Voice; breath; exercise; illustration; music; nasal; resonance; singing; sound; tone; vocal summary = Schubert, Schumann, Franz, Brahms, Grieg, Strauss, and Wolf, as well breath is necessary to produce the best results of which a voice is Full control of the breath insures success to a good voice; breath is needed to produce effective tones, the impression must exist the tone, lessen the resonance, and weaken the voice, rendering the 5. Ability to sing and sustain the voice on an _ordinary_ breath. improve her voice took vocal music lessons of a teacher of more than sing you will hear the tone sounding in the piano. of the tones are dependent upon _resonance_,--the vibration of the air As tone, or vocalized breath, issues from the larynx, it is divided to the vibrations and add to the tone normal nasal resonance. largely vowelization, and vocal tones are a complex of sound and develop and establish a good speaking and singing voice. POWER OF TONE, dependent on resonant cavities and breath control, 27. id = 21400 author = Haslam, W. E. title = Style in Singing date = keywords = Act; Gluck; Handel; Paris; Verdi; composer; italian; music; musical; phrase; singer; voice summary = basic principles of Style to the vocal music of the German, French, successfully the music of Falstaff, in Verdi''s opera, as is necessary if the musical phrasing be judiciously combined with a change in phrasing is good and effective, especially if the artist changes at of the classics confined to the vocal parts of the music composed by [Music: (Original Italian version, as written for Vienna.) accuse artists of introducing changes, of not performing the music as the composers'' music listen to the following phrase, sung as it is Composers and dramatic authors, in fact, _create_ their art-works; but (Italian), and means the changing of the notes or contour of a musical word "His," to which it belongs, while the composer''s music remains gifted artist, possessing a voice of very great compass, was enabled musical phrases or ideas to the work; but that his practical knowledge id = 19880 author = Mills, Wesley title = Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) date = keywords = CHAPTER; FIG; Madame; Seiler; band; illustration; larynx; muscle; production; register; singer; sound; tone; vocal; voice summary = effect--Forms of general exercise for the voice-user--Summary 62 Vocal bands and resonance-chambers compared--Improvised mechanism to practice as related to ease--The registers of the speaking voice The vocal bands during the production of a high-pitched tone 138 voice-training essential, if artistic results are to follow; neither breath-control so essential to good singing and speaking. Like the nose the larynx, and especially the vocal bands, may The larynx is the most important organ in voice-production, and muscles most in use in ordinary speech and in singing the lower tones. The tone caused by the vibration of two such small bands as the vocal of quality in the voice, and change of mechanism in the vocal singing and speaking the student learn to begin his voice-production any singer of whatever voice; while for speakers high tones are really cases to the vocal organs, while good voice-production strengthens id = 21957 author = Taylor, David C. (David Clark) title = The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern date = keywords = Culture; Garcia; Science; Vocal; Voice; action; chapter; italian; method; singing; teacher; throat; tone summary = instruction in singing and the actual methods of vocal teachers. the vocal action is obtained by attentive listening to voices, and in no the voice separately;--when the correct vocal cord action had been of tone; they instruct their pupils to sing low notes in one quality, empirical precept, "Sing with open throat." Several vocal theorists take MECHANICAL VOCAL MANAGEMENT AS THE BASIS OF VOICE CULTURE MECHANICAL VOCAL MANAGEMENT AS THE BASIS OF VOICE CULTURE vocal-cord action, for forward emission of tone, and for control of the Voice Culture must be turned from the idea of mechanical vocal classes of muscular sensation of vocal tone, direct and sympathetic, are vocal mechanism, obtained through the attentive listening to voices. throughout all vocal training the teacher listens to the pupil''s voice. correct vocal action and any other manner of tone-production. the vocal organs and to the mechanical operations of the voice. id = 37662 author = Tubbs, Frank Herbert title = Seed Thoughts for Singers date = keywords = CHAPTER; body; come; good; mind; music; teacher; thought; time; voice summary = Heart and Intellect, 54; Time Ends Not, 55; Power of Thought, 56; Nature Good, 84; Little Things Affect, 85; Musical Library, 86; Change of A singing teacher, passing along, noticed the rich voice of the line of development to follow in bringing into use the singing voice. had in mind the opportunity which the music teacher has to do good. A teacher of voice and singing who does not believe his way is the best into voice and music, thus making better their ability. teacher feels every little while as if his good way were slipping from long time, much longer than it takes to sing any phrase in music which It will come to any man who is doing good work and living a teacher''s mind can be made upon the pupil in two seasons of study if it body enter into voice culture, where they are and how they work.