Title -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I - MODERN METHODS OF INSTRUCTION IN SINGING -- Chapter I - Tone-Production and Voice Culture -- Chapter II - Breathing and Breath-Control -- Chapter III - Registers and Laryngeal Action -- Chapter IV - Resonance -- Chapter V - Empirical Materials of Modern Methods -- Chapter VI - A General View of Modern Voice Culture -- PART II - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MODERN METHODS -- Chapter I - Mechanical Vocal Management as the Basis of Voice Culture -- Chapter II - The Fallacy of the Doctrine of Breath-Control -- Chapter III - The Fallacies of Forward Emission, Chest Resonance, and Nasal Resonance -- Chapter IV - The Futility of the Materials of Modern Methods -- Chapter V - The Error of the Theory of Mechanical Vocal Management -- PART III - THE BASIS OF A REAL SCIENCE OF VOICE -- Chapter I - The Means of Empirical Observation of the Voice -- Chapter II - Sympathetic Sensations of Vocal Tone -- Chapter III - Empirical Knowledge of the Voice -- Chapter IV - The Traditional Precepts of the Old Italian School -- Chapter V - Empirical Knowledge in Modern Voice Culture -- Chapter VI - Scientific Knowledge of the Voice -- PART IV - VOCAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICAL VOICE CULTURE -- Chapter I - The Correct Vocal Action -- Chapter II - The Causes of Throat Stiffness and of Incorrect Vocal Action -- Chapter III - Throat Stiffness and Incorrect Singing -- Chapter IV - The True Meaning of Vocal Training -- Chapter V - Imitation the Rational Basis of Voice Culture -- Chapter VI - The Old Italian Method -- Chapter VII - The Disappearance of the Old Italian Method and the Development of Mechanical Instruction -- Chapter VIII - The Materials of Rational Instruction in Singing -- Chapter IX - Outlines of a Practical Method of Voice Culture -- Bibliography -- Endnotes.