	La Bella Voce e la Macchina (The Beautiful Voice and the Machine) A History of Technology and the Expressive Voice By Perry R. Cook Chapter Overview	With Artwork by Grady Klein
	Technology: Any human-fashioned tool, technique, method, law, surgery, notation, enhancement, etc. Expressive Voice: Singing, acting, preaching, rapping, praying, etc.

Part the First: Voice, Speech and Singing, Bolts to Nuts

		Chapter 1 The Voice	Voice physiology, acoustics, and neurology. Vowels, consonants, and nasals. A touch of phonetics, linguistics, and phonology. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
		Chapter 2 The Articulated Voice	The motions of tongue, jaw, etc. that make linguistic communication and singing possible. Gesture in production and perception. Fast and slow talking, singing, and chanting.
		Chapter 3 The Pitched Voice	Vocal pitch control and perception. Pitch and emotion in speech and singing. Pitch contour plots. Pitch modulation, vibrato. Music in speech. Speech in music. A little on loudness too.
		Chapter 4 The Visual Voice	Sight vs. sound. Facial expression and emotion. Lip reading. Sign language and other hand signs. Graphing and displaying vocal (and other) sounds. Visualizing the vocal tract, and vocal sound.
		Chapter 5 The Singing Voice	Singing vs. speech. Voices vs. instruments. The basic voice parts (bass, tenor, etc.). Vocal pitch deviation, controllable and not. Vibrato, ornaments. The "Singer's Formant"
		Chapter 6 The Biomedical Voice	Surgery as vocal enhancement (Castrati singers), The aging voice. Unintentional and intentional damage to the voice. Stuttering and other disphonias. Artificial larynx, speech synthesizers. Other Therapies and devices to aid the voice.
		Chapter 7 The Noisy Voice	Vocal noise, both normal and abnormal. Perturbations of periodicity, pitch, and timbre. Expressive burps, coughs, braps, toots, and more. Noise as expression.

Part the Second: Architectures of Intent: Sound/Voice Technologies

		Chapter 8 The Delayed Delayed Voice	Acoustic echo and delay, caves to concert halls. Space and echo in musical composition. Tape echo, delay, other effects. Electronic reverberation, artificial chorus, flanging, pitch shifting.
		Chapter 9 The Notated Voice	A history of writing, paper, alphabets, shorthand, etc. Music notation, ancient to modern. Scales and modes. Guido's hand, Kodaly's hand signs. Musical conducting. Printing, music printing, some on computers in music.
		Chapter 10 The Broadcast Voice	History of broadcasting from smoke signals to drums to wireless telegraph to telephone to radio to television to the web.
		Chapter 11 The Microphonic Voice	Microphone types, technologies, and pickup patterns. The "Perfect Microphone?" Microphones for effect. Mic, stand, and cable as instruments and fetish.
		Chapter 12 The Recorded Voice	Sound recording in myth, lore, and pre-history. Music boxes, player pianos, and other musical machines. Mechanical, electrical, and digital recording/playback. The "Record Biz" Sonic sculpture. Studio as instrument.
		Chapter 13 The Amplified Voice	Collecting/directing sound, earhorns and megaphones. Mechanically amplified instruments. Electric guitars. Home, theater, and studio speakers through history. Loudspeakers and amplifiers. Hearing aids.

Part the Third: The Culture of Voice

		Chapter 14 The Holy Voice	Praying machines. Instruments/voice and the church. much more
		Chapter 15 The Silent Voice	Vows of silence. Silence as protest. Pauses in speech, rests in music. Silence in expression. Sign Language.
		Chapter 16 The Anonymous Voice	Voices from nowhere or otherwhere. Spirits, Radio/Airport Announcers, Ventriloquists, Disembodied voices in fiction, myth, and religion, ancient to present day.
		Chapter 17 The Instrumental Voice	Voice as Instrument, Instruments "singing." Vocalize, patter, scat, diddling, etc. Voice-controlled instruments. Controllers for vocal models
		Chapter 18 The Legal Voice	Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets The man and music. Plagiarism, sampling, quoting, Identity and Image. Some famous musical cases.

Part the Fourth: Beautiful Machines With Voices

		Chapter 19 The Mechanical Voice	Early and pre-history of speaking and singing machines. From ancient, through the Mechanical Era up to electricity
		Chapter 20 The Synthesized Voice	Voice/Speech/Singing synthesis from electricity through electronics through digital era.
		Chapter 21 The Fictional Robotic Voice	Describe it here
		Chapters 22/23 The Compositional Voice	Describe it here
		Chapter 22 The Voice of the Future	Describe it here

Appendices

Appendix A
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