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G the periods of growth, the vocal bands will respond. The compass of
the head voice at this time varies largely, but it corresponds pretty
closely to that of the second soprano, in three part exercises, or from
C to C. If it is attempted to carry the voice down it changes to the
chest register unless used very lightly. Without attempting then to lay
down positive rules for treating a voice which consists of fragments of
voices, the above suggestions are made in the hope that they may receive
the consideration of teachers and musicians. CHAPTER VIII. THE ALTO
VOICE IN MALE CHOIRS. The suggestions of the preceding chapters are
addressed directly to those who teach vocal music in public or private
schools, but the general principles and rules are equally applicable to
the training of soprano choir boys. The results in beauty and power of
tone which may be obtained from carefully selected choir boys can seldom
be equalled in the school-room, first, because training is required to
develop voices in strength and purity of tone, and the time devoted
generally to school singing, one hour a week possibly, is no more than
that given to a single rehearsal of choristers. Again school singing
includes all members of the class, and while it is true that there may
be but few pupils in each room who cannot sing, yet there are likely to
be some. These voices, which we call monotones disappear almost entirely
when pupils are trained to use the head voice. Still, there is a
percentage in every class in school, whose inherited musical perceptions
are very feeble, and their slowness cannot but retard the general
progress. Many of the difficulties that beset the teacher of music in
schools, then, are eliminated at the start by the choir trainer, when he
selects boys with good voices, who sing in tune naturally. The increase
in the number of vested choirs in this country has been very rapid
during the past few years, and fortunately, the ideas which have
prevailed among the majority of choir-masters on the subject of the boy
voice, have been just. This is easily understood when we reflect that we
have made the best English standards our ideal. The leaven of sound
doctrine on the