singing-teacher

• “He chuckled, and set about making merciless fun of the music — the composer was an elderly singing-teacher, of local fame.”

  Maurice Guest

• “In view of its supreme importance, it is scarcely necessary to dwell upon the self-evident fact that this foundation -- Emission, or Placing of the voice -- should be well laid under the guidance of a skilled and experienced singing-teacher.”

  Style in Singing

• “She had secured a place as singing-teacher at the girls 'school, and this was all they had to live upon.”

  The Girl from the Marsh Croft

• “Mr. Freedom, he afterward ascertained, was a respectable singing-teacher.”

  The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

• “A grand piano by a famous maker made its appearance in the salon in place of the old one, and Madame Dobson, the singing-teacher, came no longer twice a week, but every day, music-roll in hand.”

  Fromont and Risler — Complete

• “Three trifles are essential for a good piano or singing-teacher, --”

  Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

• “A singing-teacher who does not take pains to acquire a good, delicate touch, and who neglects to pay constant attention to it, is wanting in the first requirement; and this is closely connected with the want of "the three trifles.”

  Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

• “If a singing-teacher has, by chance, met with a docile pupil, possessed of a voice of unusual beauty, it frequently happens that the studies are not pursued with sufficient perseverance; and, perhaps, are continued only for a few weeks or months, instead of allowing a year or more, according to circumstances.”

  Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

• “When this is not the case, it is to be attributed only to the singing-teacher.”

  Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

• “The old, experienced singing-teacher, Miksch, of Dresden (with the exception of Rossini, the last famous champion of the old school), has often warned me that radical amendment is seldom possible with such over-strained and broken voices, which already are obliged to struggle with enfeebled muscles, even although youth may excite great and decided hopes.”

  Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

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