- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Epigraph
- 70 The Singing Teacher in the Age of Voice Science
- 71 On the Invasion of Vocal Pedagogy by Science
- 72 The Invisible Instrument?
- 73 Have You Read the Literature?
- 74 Taming the Terrible Triplets of the Vocal Tract
- 75 The Three Musketeers of Tension
- 76 Gorillas, Giraffes, Lions, and Gazelles
- 77 Male and Female Created He Them
- 78 In Search of the Tenth Rib
- 79 Teaching Voices of the Opposite Gender
- 80 Instinctive, Artistic Singing
- 81 Let’s Build a Straw Man! (The Technique-versus-Artistry Debate)
- 82 The Misuses of “Scientific Information” in the Teaching of Singing
- 83 Relax and Sing?
- 84 Easily, Not Lazily (Tonicity in the Singing Instrument)
- 85 The Effect of Tongue Position on Spectra in Singing
- 86 The Role of the Jaw in Singing
- 87 The Incorrupt Jaw and Tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua
- 88 How Big Is the Big Sound?
- 89 Feeling, Hearing, and Seeing the Voice
- 90 Spectrographic Analysis of the Singing Voice
- 91 Vowel Definition in a Performance by Jussi Bjoerling of <i>Vesti la giubba</i>
- 92 Spectral Components of Five Cardinal Vowels in the Soprano Singing Voice Considered by Means of the Sequential Vowel Diagonal
- 93 A Brief Spectral Study of Vowel Differentiation and Modification in a Professional Tenor Voice
- 94 What the Vocal Arts Laboratory Can and <i>Cannot</i> Do
- 95 The Singer and the Otolaryngologist
- Index
Male and Female Created He Them
Male and Female Created He Them
- Chapter:
- 77 Male and Female Created He Them
- Source:
- On the Art of Singing
- Author(s):
Richard Miller
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter comments on gender discrimination in singing. Whether in the lyric theater, the church, or even poetic sources from which much of the song literature is drawn, equality of the sexes is not readily demonstrated. The appropriateness of the liturgical tradition of men-and-boy choirs is itself being currently questioned. No matter how these imbalances eventually may be corrected, there remains one factor of discrimination in the art of singing that no social advance will ever eliminate: the young male singer is physiologically disadvantaged vis-à-vis his female contemporary until his post-adolescent years are over. If one accepts the premise that the male voice experiences a later maturation than does the female, one may feel inclined to argue for delaying vocal study for the young male. It seems that vocal equality among the sexes is not temporally synchronized. Vocal pedagogy must take into account the fact that larynges are created male and female.
Keywords: gender discrimination, singing, male singer, male voice, vocal equality, vocal pedagogy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Epigraph
- 70 The Singing Teacher in the Age of Voice Science
- 71 On the Invasion of Vocal Pedagogy by Science
- 72 The Invisible Instrument?
- 73 Have You Read the Literature?
- 74 Taming the Terrible Triplets of the Vocal Tract
- 75 The Three Musketeers of Tension
- 76 Gorillas, Giraffes, Lions, and Gazelles
- 77 Male and Female Created He Them
- 78 In Search of the Tenth Rib
- 79 Teaching Voices of the Opposite Gender
- 80 Instinctive, Artistic Singing
- 81 Let’s Build a Straw Man! (The Technique-versus-Artistry Debate)
- 82 The Misuses of “Scientific Information” in the Teaching of Singing
- 83 Relax and Sing?
- 84 Easily, Not Lazily (Tonicity in the Singing Instrument)
- 85 The Effect of Tongue Position on Spectra in Singing
- 86 The Role of the Jaw in Singing
- 87 The Incorrupt Jaw and Tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua
- 88 How Big Is the Big Sound?
- 89 Feeling, Hearing, and Seeing the Voice
- 90 Spectrographic Analysis of the Singing Voice
- 91 Vowel Definition in a Performance by Jussi Bjoerling of <i>Vesti la giubba</i>
- 92 Spectral Components of Five Cardinal Vowels in the Soprano Singing Voice Considered by Means of the Sequential Vowel Diagonal
- 93 A Brief Spectral Study of Vowel Differentiation and Modification in a Professional Tenor Voice
- 94 What the Vocal Arts Laboratory Can and <i>Cannot</i> Do
- 95 The Singer and the Otolaryngologist
- Index
