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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Coordinated Vocal Onset and Release: Establishing Dynamic Muscle Equilibrium through Onset and Release | |
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| The Varieties of Onset | |
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| The Hard Attack | |
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| The Soft Onset | |
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| The Balanced Onset (Dynamic Muscle Equilibrium) | |
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| Exercises for Achieving the Balanced Onset | |
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| Uses of the Aspirated Onset | |
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| Uses of the Glottal Attack | |
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| Physiological Benefits of the Coordinated Onset | |
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| Onset Vocalises which Induce Dynamic Equilibrium | |
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| Group 1 Exercises | |
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| Staccato and Onset | |
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| Group 2 Exercises | |
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| Group 3 Exercises | |
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| The Release | |
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| The Soft Release | |
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| The Hard Release | |
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| The Balanced Release | |
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| The Supported Singing Voice: Breath Management in Singing | |
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| Subglottic Pressure and Glottal Activity | |
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| The Technique of appoggio | |
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| Breath Management Exercises without Phonation | |
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| Breath Management Exercises with Sibilants and Fricatives | |
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| Breath Management Exercises Involving Phonation | |
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| Breath-pacing versus "More Support" | |
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| Agility in Singing: Flexible Application of Breath Power | |
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| Exercises for the Acquisition of Agility | |
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| The Resonant Voice: Supraglottic Considerations in Singing | |
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| Vowel Formants | |
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| The Singer's Formant | |
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| The Singer's Perception of Timbre | |
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| The Open Throat (gola aperta) | |
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| "Placement" of the Voice (impostazione della voce) | |
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| Exercises for Establishing Resonance Balance (impostazione) in Singing | |
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| Velopharyngeal Closure | |
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| The Well-balanced Vowel: Vowel Differentiation in Singing | |
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| The Acoustic At-rest Posture | |
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| The Vowel Postures | |
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| Formation of the Neutral Vowels [[characters not reproducible] and [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [a] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [i] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [e] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [o] | |
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| Formation of the Vowel [u] | |
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| Mouth Position for Vowels in Singing | |
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| Exercises for Vowel Differentiation | |
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| Group 1 Exercises | |
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| Group 2 Exercises | |
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| Resonance Balancing through Nasal Consonants: The Influences of Nasal Continuants on Resonator Adjustment | |
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| Pedagogical Uses of Consonantal Phonemes in General | |
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| Use of the Nasals in Balancing Resonator Coupling | |
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| Some Uses of the Voiced Bilabial Stop [m] | |
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| Uses of the Alveolar-nasal Continuant [n] | |
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| Some Uses of the Voiced Linguavelar Stop [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Some Uses of the Lingua-palatal-nasal Continuant [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Some General Considerations on the Nasal Continuants | |
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| Resonance Balancing through Non-nasal Consonants: The Influence of Non-nasal Consonants on Resonator Adjustment | |
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| Uses of the Voiced Lingua-anterior-palatal Continuant [j] | |
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| Uses of the Lingua-alveolar Continuant [l] | |
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| Uses of the Alveolar Single [r] and the Alveolar Rolled [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Uses of the Voiced Labiodental Fricative Continuant [v] and the Voiceless Labiodental Fricative Continuant [f] | |
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| Uses of the Voiced Bilabial Stop Plosive [b] and the Voiceless Bilabial Stop Plosive [p] | |
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| Use of the Voiced Lingua-alveolar Fricative Continuant [z] and the Voiceless Lingua-alveolar Fricative Continuant [s] | |
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| Uses of the Voiced Linguadental Fricative Continuant [[characters not reproducible] and the Voiceless Linguadental Fricative Continuant [[characters not reproducible] | |
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| Uses of the Voiced Lingua-alveolar Stop Plosive [d] and the Voiceless Lingua-alveolar Stop Plosive [t] | |
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| Uses of the Voiced Linguavelar Stop Plosive [g] and the Voiceless Linguavelar Stop Plosive [k] | |
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| Uses of Voiceless Consonants in General | |
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| Useful Pitch Patterns | |
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| Vowel and Diphthong Patterns | |
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| Coupled Consonants | |
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| Sustaining the Voice: Sostenuto | |
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| Exercises for Developing Sostenuto | |
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| Group 1 Exercises | |
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| Group 2 Exercises | |
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| Group 3 Exercises | |
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| Group 4 Exercises | |
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| Group 5 Exercises | |
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| Unifying the Registers of Male Voices | |
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| Register Terminology | |
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| Primo passaggio (First Register Transition) | |
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| Secondo passaggio (Second Register Transition) | |
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| Zona di passaggio (zona intermedia) (The Passage Zone) | |
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| Registration Events of Male Voices | |
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| Voce di petto (Chest Voice) | |
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| Voce Mista (Mixed Voice) | |
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| Voce di testa (Head Voice) | |
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| Voce finta (Feigned Voice) | |
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| Falsetto | |
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| The Male Falsettist | |
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| Strohbass | |
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| Exercises for Achieving an Evenly Registered Scale in Lower and Middle Voice | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Exercises for Achieving an Evenly Registered Scale in Upper and Middle Voice | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Unifying the Registers of the Female Voice | |
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| Registers of the Female Speaking Voice | |
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| Combining Female Singing Registers | |
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| Registration Events of Female Voices | |
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| Chest in Female Voices | |
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| Open Chest | |
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| Chest Mixture | |
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| Exercises for the Development of the Lower Range | |
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| Head Mixture in Female Lower Range | |
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| Head Mixture in Female Middle Range | |
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| Exercises for Inducing Head Mixture in Middle Voice | |
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| Female voce di testa | |
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| Exercises for Inducing voce di testa Sensations Throughout the Voice | |
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| Flageolet Register | |
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| Exercises for Developing the Flageolet Range | |
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| Vowel Modification in Singing: aggiustamento | |
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| Timbre Terminology | |
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| The Technique of aggiustamento (The Vowel Series in Modification) | |
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| Exercises for Achieving aggiustamento | |
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| Range Extension and Stabilization in Singing | |
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| Range and Voice Categorization | |
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| Extending the Vocal Range | |
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| Exercises for Extending and Stabilizing the Vocal Range | |
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| Messa di voce and Dynamic Control | |
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| Exercises for Developing Dynamic Control | |
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| Determining Dynamic Levels | |
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| Vibrancy in Singing: Vibrato and Vocal Timbre | |
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| Physical Causes of Vibrato | |
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| Uses of the Vibrato | |
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| Correcting Oscillation ("Wobble") | |
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| Eliminating Straight-tone Intrusion | |
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| Correcting the Vibratoless Voice | |
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| Correcting Tremolo ("Shake") | |
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| Vibrato and Velocity | |
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| Pedagogical Uses of Straight-tone | |
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| Uses of the Trill | |
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| Coordinating Technique and Communication | |
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| Pedagogical Attitudes: The Aesthetics of Vocal Timbre | |
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| The New Student | |
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| Compensatory Methods of Singing | |
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| The Technically Intense Teacher | |
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| The Interpretation-oriented Teacher | |
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| The Technique-mystique Teacher | |
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| The One-aspect Teacher | |
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| Pedagogical Balance | |
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| Teaching Oneself | |
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| Healthy Singing | |
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| Conditioning for Performance Readiness | |
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| Performance-day Routine | |
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| When Not to Sing | |
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| What to Sing | |
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| The Teacher-performer | |
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| The Question of Complete Vocal Rest | |
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| The Question of Medication | |
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| Dry Throat | |
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| "Clearing" the Throat | |
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| Fighting the Cough | |
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| Chewing | |
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| Singers and the Laryngologist | |
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| Weight and the Singing Voice | |
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| Diet and the Singer | |
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| Physical Exercise and Singing | |
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| Longevity and the Voice | |
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| The Optimistic Performer | |
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| Laryngeal Structure and Function | |
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| Cartilaginous Structure of the Larynx | |
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| The Single or Unpaired Laryngeal Cartilages | |
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| The Paired Laryngeal Cartilages | |
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| Ligaments and Membranes of the Larynx | |
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| The Interior of the Larynx | |
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| Muscles of the Larynx and their Function | |
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| Extrinsic Muscles | |
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| Intrinsic Muscles | |
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| The Muscles of Adduction | |
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| The Muscles of Elongation | |
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| Summary of Intrinsic Laryngeal Action | |
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| The Structure and Mechanics of the Breath Apparatus | |
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| The Thoracic Cage | |
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| The Region of the Sternum | |
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| The Intercostal Muscles | |
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| The Diaphragm | |
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| The Lungs and the Pleurae | |
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| Muscles of the Neck | |
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| Muscles of the Upper Torso | |
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| Muscles of the Anterolateral Abdominal Wall | |
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| Systems of Breath Control | |
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| The Physiology of the Vocal Tract Resonator System | |
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| The Physical Factors of Vocal Registration | |
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| Cricothyroid Action in Registration | |
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| External Frame Function | |
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| Damping | |
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| Summary of Physical Aspects of Registration | |
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| Influences of Various Voiced and Unvoiced Consonants on Resonator Adjustment | |
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| International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Symbols | |
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| A Concise Correlative Pronunciation Guide | |
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| IPA Symbols for Vowels, Semi-vowels, and French Vowel Sounds | |
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| International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols for Consonant Sounds | |
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| Glossary of Nonmusical Terms | |
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| Glossary of Vocal Terms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Articles | |
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| Books | |
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| Index | |