When Julius Hey published his three-part work 'Deutscher Gesangsunterricht' [German Singing Lessons] around 1900, he had no way of knowing that this textbook was to start an unprecedented triumphant progress. Originally, Hey had developed his method only for his pupils and as a mere singing manual. It was only the responsibility for improving the often wrong pronunciation of actors and singers that prompted him to add a 'speech part' to his main work. The fact that especially this part, entitled...

• Vorwort des Herausgebers
• Inhalt
• Die Stimmprüfung
• Die Lautlehre
• Die sprachliche Behandlung der Vokale (Vokalisation)
• Die sprachliche Behandlung der Konsonanten (Artikulation)
• Rhythmus und Dynamik der Sprache
• Das Organ der Stimme
• Übungsliteratur für den Unterricht
• Schrifttum