This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...The five degrees of general pitch in speaking which might be designated as very low, low, moderate, high and very high, are included in the first twelve tones, beginning with the lowest and going upward as in the music scale. This, of course, is not to be understood as referring to any absolute or "concert pitch" but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...The five degrees of general pitch in speaking which might be designated as very low, low, moderate, high and very high, are included in the first twelve tones, beginning with the lowest and going upward as in the music scale. This, of course, is not to be understood as referring to any absolute or "concert pitch" but relatively to any voice of general ability. Notb.--We commend the following exercises to the special study and practice of the student. Let the elementary tonic sounds (see Table I, Chap. I, ) be spoken, not sung, on the successive tones of the scale. I suppose the student able to sing the musical scale, and he can thus guide his voice in the transitions by the same degrees as he does in singing; but as there is a difference, already pointed out in the preceding section, between speaking and singing the syllables, he will encounter some difficulty at first in applying the voice to the scale with regular gradations of tone and pitch, especially at the semitonic intervals. But this can be overcome by a little practice. In going up the Bcale with the elementary sounds the series are spoken as if asking a question; in going down, as if making a positive assertion. The short, obstructed sounds on the left must be spoken with a very short concrete, as their character does not admit of long quantity; the long, unobstructed sounds on the right, and the diphthongal sound in the center, have a concrete movement more or less protracted; let them be made successively through the concrete intervals of the semitone, the tone, the major and minor third, etc., as far as the musical ear and knowledge of the pupil may go. Much of the culture and mastery of the voice in speaking might be obtained here, as it is in the practice of the scale by the musical...
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