A Comparison of the Pegagogical Philosophies of William Vennard and Richard Miller

A COMPARISON OF THE PEDAGOGICAL PHILOSOPHIES

OF WILLIAM VENNARD AND RICHARD MILLER

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A Paper

Presented to

Dr. David Robinson

School of Church Music

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Fort Worth, Texas

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In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for the Course

Seminar in Vocal Pedagogy (VOICL 4902)

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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 milling machine (The Structure of Singing) are attempts to contrast two sides of the same coin, particularly with regard to philosophical--and certainly scientific--opinions. With regard to approach, however, the comparison is more a matter of apples and oranges. Vennards work takes a more technical approach, winning care to explain scientific obser-vations of strain phenomena. moth miller, on the different hand, deals primarily with direct application of technique. This is not to say Vennard does not exhaustively address technique, or that Miller never addresses the acquirement of it, but that his approach is based on first discussing the scientific body of knowledge (at the time of his writing) on vocal production, than from the standstill of direct vocal production itself, à la Miller.

As Vennards book is the sr. and more used text, it seems logical to treat his text as the default subject. Miller has not presented his work as a response per se, but in most pedagogical situations it is potential that Vennard is the given authority, with Miller used (if at all) as an supportive source. After all, Vennard is more exhaustive with his discussions of the purely scientific aspects of vocal production within his text (even if some of his information is dated), and much(prenominal) knowledge is foun-dational to any technical understanding upon which to base ones pedagogy. Miller also supplies...

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