Note 7 — Chapter XIX · THE CULTURE OF THE SPEAKING VOICE AS THE NATURAL GROUND FOR THE CULTURE OF THE SINGING VOICE
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We can appreciate the true merit of anybody compelled, because of the difficulties of his language, to study it deeply and perseveringly; but we do not see the benefits accruing to voice culture by training the voice through as difficult a medium as the English language, when it can be so easily avoided by adopting a much more convenient one.