CONTENTS.

How to Become a Successful Singer. By Madame Clara Butt

The Gift of Song. With Practical Advice on Voice Culture. By Madame Melba

Hints on the Cultivation of the Voice. By Enrico Caruso

How to Attain Success in Singing. By Ben Davies

HOW TO BECOME
A SUCCESSFUL SINGER.

By MADAME CLARA BUTT.

The question of how to sing a song involvestouching upon a variety of points that might notat first sight be associated with the subject. Fourdistinct factors play prominent parts in the singingof any song, however simple. These are theVoice, the Singer, the Master, and the Song.

Of these, of course, the voice is of primaryimportance; for unless an individual possesses insome degree the gift of song it is impossible forhim or her to become a singer. In very manycases, needless to say, correct training, by showinghow the vocal organs can be used to the bestadvantage, may achieve some sort of result. Butthe voice so produced is often of an artificialcharacter, which can never approach the purely"natural" voice.

It is, I believe, held by a great many people thatonly those can sing who possess a throat and vocalorgans suitable for the production of the voice, butmy own views on the subject do not coincide withthis idea at all. My point of view is that if youare meant to be a singer you will sing. "God sentHis singers upon earth," etc.

One often hears of operations upon the throatbeing performed with the object of improving thevoice, but here again I find myself in entiredisagreement. I think that if one is born with adeformity of the throat, and has always sung easilywith it, any attempt to interfere with, or alter, thatdeformity, may end in destroying the power ofsong altogether.

When I was at the Royal College of Music Iwas constantly being urged to have my tonsils cut.For a long time I held out against it, but at lastconsented. However, while I was actually seatedin the operating chair, the doctor asked me to singthe vowel sound "E" on a high note, andremarked upon the way my tonsils contracted whileI sang it. All

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