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by Hilda Deighton  (Author), Dina Winter (Contributor)

Singing and the Etheric Tone 

This book introduces a practical approach to freer and more joyful singing. 
Drawing its strength and inspiration from Gracia Ricardo's work with Rudolf Steiner, 
it presents anyone who wishes to sing, as well as professional singers, 
with a spiritual alternative to the mechanical and physical methods of 
voice training usually available today. The Ricardo method is based on the word. 
The first chapter deals with the onset of the tone, its focus, the separation of word 
and tone, and listening for the word. The relation between vowels, consonants, 
words, and phrases is also dealt with. The second chapter goes on to consider 
the voice, how to build and extend its range. The third chapter develops the 
idea of blending the vocal registers, placement, embellishments, resonance, 
and diction. Professional tips follow: on choosing a program, stage fright, mood, 
and presence. Esoteric aspects of music and singing are then dealt with 
in a special section. "It is important that we sing. It is especially important 
for our children to sing. Singing frees the soul, makes it flexible, and helps 
it soar and expand. Singing lets the sun in-gives warmth to our lives and 
wings to our spirit. Those who sing know this. To sing at all requires 
a certain degree of freedom. Learning to sing in the way described 
here means finding ever greater degrees of freedom in ourselves. 
When we sing with this freedom, we find ourselves anew. 
When we sing with others, we find one another. Singing music that lifts 
our souls in freedom, we open ourselves to worlds that fructify the spirit in us. 
We make our souls flexible and receptive to spiritual worlds-open to what 
the spiritual worlds can tell us." - Dina Soresi Winter

 ISBN:978-0880103565/  paperback /May 1, 1991