 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1100 pages
...emphatic bid for applause.1 Wagner then explains how he freed his singer of these senseless habits. My compulsorily simple plan was to make him really...singing, whilst I brought the lines of musical curvature to his consciousness by getting him to take hi one breath, with perfectly even intonation, the calmer,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1058 pages
...emphatic bid for applause.' Wagner then explains how he freed his singer of these senseless habits. My compulsorily simple plan was to make him really...singing, whilst I brought the lines of musical curvature to his consciousness by getting him to take in one breath, with perfectly even intonation, the calmer,... | |
 | Richard Wagner, William Ashton Ellis - Music - 1995 - 412 pages
...has been almost amazing to me, to find how quickly such a singer, with a little talent and good will, could be freed of his senseless habits if I led him...whilst I brought the lines of musical curvature (die Linien der Gesangsbewegung) to his consciousness by getting him to take in one breath, with perfectly... | |
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Gesangsbewegung) to his consciousness by getting him to take in one breath, with perfectly even intonation, the calmer, lengthier periods on which he formerly had expended a number of gusty respirations ; when this had been well done I left it to his... 