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A book plate or rubber stamp with the owner's name and address will prove helpful in iden¬tifying valuable property.
Notebook Most singers use a small pocket-size book, which contains words, or words and music of the songs which are in preparation, or are to be sung. Music lined or blank paper can be purchased to fit these small books. This may eliminate the cost of buying more than one copy, or carrying a copy to study. They also afford a ready reference in actual performance.
The cost of the books is nominal depending on whether leather or paper is used for the cover. The note paper is comparatively inexpensive. List of songs for all voices are easily procured from the music pub¬lishers. Generally speaking, certain arias or songs are definitely for only one type of voice and should not be sung by another. A woman should not sing a man's song or vice versa. A contralto should not sing soprano arias or vice versa.
Notes on Educational Psychology Teaching and Learning4
The teaching of singing calls for a combination of theoretical analyses on the part of the teacher of how it should be done, and of directing the stu¬dent in actual practice48 How successful the teacher will be in his analyses will be dependent upon his own actual experience in singing, correlated with basic significant facts on how the vocal mechanism works. It is hardly to be expected that he will be able to teach breathing for singing unless he is reasonably efficient in his own breathing techniques;
or to teach range de¬velopment unless he has been able to solve his own range problems; or to teach students the quality to sing, the diction to use, how to sing loudly and softly, and how to keep the voice in good condition, without actual personal experience in solving these problems. His ability as a teacher will be de¬pendent on his ability to utilize what he has learned through past experience. There will be exceptions to the above rule — teachers who will be suc¬cessful with a limited background of experience and knowledge. This can be explained in part by the quality of the vocal material they have to teach. Many students are naturals, and respond to comparatively little teaching.
It is entirely possible that a teacher in his career as a singer may have had a limited number of personal problems to solve. In that case he will be meeting many problems first-hand without the benefit of past experiences. To make up for this deficiency he should take a comprehensive course in the teaching of singing, where a multitude of actual problems can be pre¬sented by a great variety of student cases. Along with the other members of the class he should be required to take part in various procedures which illustrate different problems and how to solve them. In a comparatively short time he will have learned the answers to many problems which other¬wise might have taken him months or years to solve.
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