Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: On Training the Singing Voice -- 1 Imagery and the Teaching of Singing -- 2 Five Principles for the Successful Teaching of Singing -- 3 Covering in the Singing Voice -- 4 The Open Throat (La gola aperta) -- 5 Breath Management, Diction, and the Vocal Legato -- 6 Diction and Vocal Technique -- 7 The Performer as Voice Teacher -- 8 Pedagogical Clothing for the Emperor and Empress -- 9 The "Tricky" Teacher -- 10 Woofy Baritones and Tinny Tenors -- 11 McPedagogy -- 12 "What You Need Is More Support!" -- 13 "Simplicity" in Singing -- 14 Teaching Hearing the Voice -- 15 Si canta come si parla? -- 16 How Singing Is Not Like Speaking -- 17 Thinking Phonetically (Values and Pitfalls of the IPA) -- 18 A Parable of the Foolish Baker -- 19 The Choral Conductor as Teacher of Vocal Technique -- 20 The Law of Contingency and Vocal Pedagogies -- 21 To Admire or to Teach? -- 22 Patching the Vocal Garment -- 23 Mysteries and Miracles -- 24 The Flat-Earth School of Vocal Pedagogy -- 25 Sharpening Up Some Old Pedagogical Saws -- 26 Open Windows -- Part II: On Musical Style and Interpretation -- 27 Purely a Matter of Taste -- 28 The Two Poles of Bel Canto -- 29 Singing the mélodie -- 30 Self-perception and Performance Reality -- 31 Liederwurst -- 32 Seit ich ihn gesehen . . . kann ich jedoch singen! -- 33 Words or Sentences? Notes or Phrases? -- 34 Sentiment or Sentimentality? -- 35 Singing the Recitative -- 36 Reality and Art -- 37 Pop Music, Non-Western European Vocal Styles, and Efficient Vocal Function -- 38 How Is Legato Achieved in Singing? -- 39 Rhythm versus Beat -- 40 Large and Small Strokes -- 41 The Gilda-in-the-Sack School of Singing -- 42 The Demise of the "Studio Baroque" Vocal Sound -- 43 Vocal Coach or Vocal Technician? -- 44 Vocal Tea Parties of the Private and Public Sorts.

45 "As the Old Italians Said-" -- 46 The Lively Dying Art of Singing -- 47 The Sense of Immediacy in Singing -- Part III: On Preparation for the Professional Life -- 48 The Seven Pillars of Performance Success -- 49 Wrapping Up the Performance Package -- 50 What to Do on a Performance Day -- 51 Warming Up the Voice -- 52 The Technique of Marking -- 53 The Vocal Contestant and the Judges -- 54 Twenty-one Proven Ways to Alienate Competition Judges -- 55 Beginning with Another Teacher -- 56 Early and Late Bloomers -- 57 Creative Practicing -- 58 A Stroll Past the Practice Rooms -- 59 What Technical Work Have You Done Today? -- 60 The Lonely Soccer Player -- 61 How to Really Bomb a Master Class -- 62 Developing Independence in the Student -- 63 Is There a Cure for Performance Anxiety? -- 64 Please Tell Me My Fach -- 65 The Aging Singer -- 66 The Wisdom of the Body in Singing -- 67 Studio Procedures -- 68 Truth in Advertising (A Critical Look) -- 69 The Practicality of Creativity -- Part IV: On the Singing Voice and Vocal Function -- 70 The Singing Teacher in the Age of Voice Science -- 71 On the Invasion of Vocal Pedagogy by Science -- 72 The Invisible Instrument? -- 73 Have You Read the Literature? -- 74 Taming the Terrible Triplets of the Vocal Tract: Tongue/Hyoid Bone/Larynx -- 75 The Three Musketeers of Tension: Tongue, Neck, and Jaw -- 76 Gorillas, Giraffes, Lions, and Gazelles -- 77 Male and Female Created He Them -- 78 In Search of the Tenth Rib -- 79 Teaching Voices of the Opposite Gender -- 80 Instinctive, Artistic Singing -- 81 Let's Build a Straw Man! (The Technique-versus-Artistry Debate) -- 82 The Misuses of "Scientific Information" in the Teaching of Singing -- 83 Relax and Sing? -- 84 Easily, Not Lazily (Tonicity in the Singing Instrument) -- 85 The Effect of Tongue Position on Spectra in Singing -- 86 The Role of the Jaw in Singing.

87 The Incorrupt Jaw and Tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua -- 88 How Big Is the Big Sound? -- 89 Feeling, Hearing and Seeing the Voice -- 90 Spectrographic Analysis of the Singing Voice -- 91 Vowel Definition in a Performance by Jussi Bjoerling of Vesti la giubba -- 92 Spectral Components of Five Cardinal Vowels in the Soprano Singing Voice Considered by Means of the Sequential Vowel Diagonal -- 93 A Brief Spectral Study of Vowel Differentiation and Modification in a Professional Tenor Voice -- 94 What the Vocal Arts Laboratory Can and Cannot Do -- 95 The Singer and the Otolaryngologist -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.