author
Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) Miller
1859–1932
A New York throat, nose, and ear specialist who also knew singing from the inside, he wrote practical books that joined medical knowledge with a performer’s ear. His work on vocal care and voice training reflects both clinic experience and a close connection to the music world.
1 Audiobook
The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation
by Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) Miller
About the author
Frank E. Miller was an American physician and writer best known for books on the voice, singing, and ear, nose, and throat medicine. Library and public-domain records identify him as Frank Ebenezer Miller (1859–1932), and his published work includes Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Nose, The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation, and Vocal Art-Science and Its Application.
A contemporary note printed with The Voice describes him as a leading New York specialist in throat, nose, and ear work, says that many singers were among his patients, and notes that he served as physician to the Manhattan Opera House. That same note also presents him as someone with practical experience as a vocalist, which helps explain the clear, applied style of his writing.
Miller’s books are especially interesting because they sit at the meeting point of medicine and performance. Rather than treating the voice as an abstract subject, he wrote for singers and students who needed usable advice on how the voice works, how to protect it, and how technique connects with the body.