Textbook of Gregorian Chant (1930) - MusicaSacra

10 Part One.
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Lesson VI.
Voice-production, (*) Rules, Vocalisation; Rules: Exercises.
As soon as the musical scale can be gone over perfectly and
without hesitation, it is necessary before proceeding further, to
teach the pupils what is needed for good voice-production, as
otherwise it is to be feared that the faults which they may have
contracted will have become so habitual as to render them incapable
of singing the plainsong melodies as they should be sung.
The voice has been called the fine instrument with which divine
Providence has endowed us in order to express our thoughts and
feelings. Man has never succeeded in inventing anything so perfect
as the human voice, but it must be cultivated in order to bring uut
the latent aptitudes which it possesses for singing sacred words
with grace and true expression.
(') Valuable hints on this important subject — only slightly touched upon by
Dom Sunol — may be gained from the Stanbrook " Grammar of Flainsong ",
Chapter XIV. New Edition 1926.