A COMPARISON OF THE PEDAGOGICAL PHILOSOPHIES OF WILLIAM VENNARD AND RICHARD MILLER ________________ A Paper Presented to Dr. David Robinson School of Church Music Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth, Texas ________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course Seminar in Vocal Pedagogy (VOICL 4902) ________________ by Michael Mays November, 2003 In many ways, a comparison of the pedagogical styles presented in the respective seminal works of William Vennard (Singing: the Mechanism and Technic) and Richard Miller (The …showed first 75 words of 10654 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10654 total…eeding up or slowing down, if necessary. "[This] theory of synchronizing oscillatory patterns with written note changes is passed on the false assumption that the presence of vibrato in the human voice is perceived by the listener as off-pitch singing; our own perceptions prove that not to be the case, because the ear does not register pitch fluctuations of vibrato as pitch alternation but AS PART OF VOCAL TIMBRE" (194, emphasis mine). While understanding and consciou