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Laryngology's Hundred-Year-Old Debt to Grand Opera

1955; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 253; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm195509152531107

1533-4406

Théodore H. Ingalls, S. M. Hemming,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

ON March 22, 1855, the secretary of the Royal Society of London received a communication from Manuel Garcia,1 a singing teacher, entitled "Observations on the Human Voice." The writer had observed the functioning of the larynx during the act of singing and was recording the very simple "method which I have adopted... It consists in placing a little mirror, fixed on a long handle suitably bent, in the throat of the person experimented on against the soft palate and uvula. The party ought to turn himself towards the sun so that the luminous rays falling on the little mirror may . . .