Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting: A History of the Voice in the 19th Century

What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century?

In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than a decade later, surgeon Paul Broca identified what he called a speech center in the brain. The almost simultaneous invention of the laryngoscope and the discovery of Broca’s ar…