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Seiler, Emma; A Member of the American Philosophical Society (Translator) : The Voice in Singing

J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1870

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 5" x 7 1/2." 178 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Appendix in back. Former owner's inscription in pencil on front free endpaper: "Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 11th, 1872, C. M. Brooks." Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Minuscule rubbing to covers and spine. A faint spot on back cover. Pages slightly age-toned. Dampstaining on a few pages but limited to the margins along the gutter. A Fine copy. Emma Seiler was a German singer. Seiler's treatise on vocal pedagogy, translated from German into English by an anonymous member of the American Philosophical Society. Special emphasis on the scientific aspects of singing and how the voice relates to the larynx. Seiler is noted as having viewed the larynx using a laryngoscope, a fairly recent tool at the time that had been invented by Spanish singer Manuel Garcia (1805-1906). The following is a quoted from Professor du Bois-Reymond in theTranslator's Preface: "[A]s a lady of truly remarkable scientific attainments ... [Seiler] has made herself entire acquainted with all the facts and theories concerning the production of the human voice. She has entered, deeper probably than any one else before her, into the study of the problem of the different registers of the human voice. Most of her results she has published in a pamphlet under the title: Altes und Neues uber die Ausbildung des Gesangorganes (Leipzig 1861), which has received the approbation of both the physiologists and the singing masters of this country.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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