📚 Singing

The oldest instrument: technique and training, and the choral, folk, and pop traditions that use it all day.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject singing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Music for Sightsinging	Robert W. Ottman	1956	36
	Impro	Keith Johnstone	1979	25
	Resonance in Singing and Speaking	Thomas Fillebrown	1911	24
	Meine Gesangskunst	Lilli Lehmann	1902	18
	Adventures in Singing	Clifton Ware	1994	15
	Clavier und Gesang	Friedrich Wieck	1853	13
	French diction for singers and speakers	William Harkness Arnold	1912	12
	Basics of Singing	Jan Schmidt	1989	12
	Teaching Kids to Sing	Kenneth H. Phillips	1992	12
	The diagnosis & correction of vocal faults	James C. McKinney	1982	11
	Vocal Mastery	Harriette Brower	1920	10
	Sounds and scores	Henry Mancini	1962	10
	Singing for dummies	Pamelia S. Phillips	2010	10
	Interpretation in song	Harry Plunket Greene	1912	9
	The art of singing and voice technique	Viktor Fuchs	1963	9
	On Singing Onstage	David Craig	1978	9
	Gymnastics of the voice	Oskar Guttmann	1882	8
	Functional lessons in singing	Ivan Trusler	1960	8
	Resonance in singing and speaking	Thomas Fillebrown	1911	7
	What every singer should know	Millie Ryan	1916	7
	Music for Sight Singing	Thomas Edward Benjamin	1994	7
	The free voice	Cornelius L. Reid	1965	6
	Singers' Italian	Evelina Colorni	1970	6
	Storia del belcanto	Rodolfo Celletti	1983	6
	Music and Singing in the Early Years	Zoe Greenhalgh	2018	6
	Sounds of singing	Berton Coffin	1960	5
	Singing for the Stars	Seth Riggs	1985	5
	The structure of singing	Richard Miller	1986	5
	Singing and Teaching Singing	Janice L. Chapman	2005	5
	Resonance in singing	Donald Gray Miller	2008	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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