- 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
The Incorrupt Jaw and Tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua
The Incorrupt Jaw and Tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua
- Chapter:
- (p.269) 87 The Incorrupt Jaw and Tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua
- Source:
- On the Art of Singing
- Author(s):
Richard Miller
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on the “incorrupt jaw and tongue” of St. Anthony of Padua, known for his legendary ability to use vocal timbres and histrionics in preaching. Thousands of devout pilgrims come to visit the ornate shrine of St. Anthony in the Italian city of Padua. Several parts of his vocal mechanism, which functioned so mellifluously 750 years ago, have become objects of religious veneration in the cathedral at Padua. The saint's “incorrupt” tongue has endured not only physically but spiritually, and the thoughts expressed by that ancient vocal instrument continue to speak to us today, in part because of the “golden delivery” that came from efficient physiologic and acoustic use of his vocal tract. One doesn't have to be a believer to recognize that ideas conveyed through specific vocal timbres evoke strong emotional and spiritual responses.
Keywords: jaw, tongue, St. Anthony of Padua, vocal timbre, vocal instrument, vocal tract
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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
