The Soul of a Singer (from Vocal Wisdom by Giovanni Battista Lamberti, thought to have been jotted between 1891-1893)
The soul of a singer demands technic of both voice and breath before it will emerge as tone.
Intense vibration and adequate energy must be ever available.
Overtones are its colors:
Rhythm is its heart-beat:
Resonance its body:
Vowels the forms it assumes:
Consonants are its hands:
Emotion is its life blood:
Imgination its ears and eyes:
Thought its feet:
Desire its wings:
Melody is its language.
The soul of the singer is the subconscious self.
It can use the body and mind only after these are disciplined by the conscious self.
November
fROM Wikipedia: Ave Verum Corpus is a short Eucharistic chant that has also been set to music by various composers. It dates from the 14th century and has been attributed to Pope Innocent VI.[1]
During the Middle Ages it was sung at the elevation of the sacramental bread during the consecration. It was also used frequently during Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The poem is a meditation on the Catholic belief in Jesus's real presence in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and ties it to the Catholic conception of the redemptive meaning of suffering in the life of all believers.
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Ave verum corpus, natum |
Hail, true Body, born |