PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ANALYSIS. 1. "O'er all the peaceful world the smile of heaven lies." Descriptive style, Pure quality, Medium, Expulsive force, Median stress, Medium time, Medium pitch, Whole Tone slide. 2. "For I am poor and miserably old." Pathetic style, Pure quality, Soft, Effusive force, Tremor, Slow time, Low pitch, Semi-tonic slide. 3. "Sound drums and trumpets, boldly and cheerfully." Joyous style, Orotund quality, Loud, Expulsive force, Radical stress, Quick time, High pitch, Whole Tone slide. 4. “Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born!" Noble style, Orotund quality, Medium, Expulsive force, Median stress, Medium time, Medium pitch, Whole Tone slide. 5. "At midnight in the forest shades —." Descriptive style, Aspirate quality, Soft, Effusive force, Median stress, Slow time, Low pitch, Monotone. 6. "You must attend to the business at once." Didactic style, Pure quality, Medium, Expulsive force, Radical stress, Medium tone, Medium pitch, Whole Tone slide. 7. "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats." Conversational, Pure, Medium, Expulsive, Radical, Medium time, Medium pitch, Whole Tone. [The preceding examples can be somewhat modified according to individual taste.] QUALITIES OF VOICE. Quality (timbre in Music) is the kind of tone produced by the vocal organs. All tone has more or less Force, dependent upon the manner in which it is produced. The terms Effusive (a pouring out), Expulsive (a driving out), and Explosive (a bursting out), refer to the Kind or quality of Force. [For convenience, examples of Quality of Voice are combined with Kind of Force.] PURE. Pure Tone is the clear tone in which children talk before acquiring bad habits of utterance. It characterizes the natural speaking voice when free from defects, and is therefore the only Quality of Voice suitable for ordinary reading. EFFUSIVE (Didactic). In Effusive Force the breath is effused or given out gently, tranquilly and without effort. 8. When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. The soul will not know either deformity or pain. If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice. In these hours the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from it that seems much. For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. Spiritual Laws. -RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 9. Thou know'st that through our tears Of hasty, selfish weeping Comes surer sun; and for our petty fears Of loss, thou hast in keeping A greater gain than all of which we dreamed. The bright possessions which so precious seemed Thy faithful hand, we tread with steadfast feet There waits for us a treasury of sweet Delight; royal anointing With oil of gladness and of strength! Renunciation.-HELEN HUNT JACKSON. EFFUSIVE (Narrative). 10. Faith, in the next room, seems to have wakened from a frightened dream, and I can hear voices through the wall. Her mother is singing to her and soothing her in the broken words of some old lullaby with which Phœbe used to sing Roy and me to sleep years and years ago. The unfamiliar, home-like sound is pleasant in the silent house. Phoebe on her way to bed is stopping on the garret-stairs to listen to it. Even the cat comes mewing up to the door and purring as I have not heard the creature purr since the old Sunday-night singing, hushed so long ago. The Gates Ajar.-ELIZ. STUART PHELPS. 11. Then he sat down still and speechless, On the bed of Minnehaha, At the feet of Laughing Water, At those willing feet that never More would lightly run to meet him, Never more would lightly follow. With both hands his face he covered. Seven long days and nights he sat there; Speechless, motionless, unconscious Of the daylight or the darkness. Hiawatha.-HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. EFFUSIVE (Descriptive). 12. It was a mild, serene, midsummer's night; the sky was without a cloud; the winds were quiet; the Pleiades, just above the horizon, shed their sweet influence in the cast. At length the timid approach of twilight became more perceptible; the intense blue of the sky began to soften; the smaller stars, like little children, went first to rest. Hands of angels, hidden from mortal eyes, shifted the scenery of the heavens; the glories of night dissolved into the glories of dawn. 13. Sunrise.-EDWARD EVERETT. All sights were mellowed and all sounds subdued; His winter log, with many a muffled blow. His alien horn, and then was heard no more. The Closing Scene.-THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. EXPULSIVE (Didactic). In Expulsive Force the breath is expelled, or driven out forcibly, with the amount of effort naturally made in speech and in ordinary reading. It is, therefore, the most common kind of force. 14. Natural history may, I am convinced, take a profound hold upon practical life by its influence over our finer feelings. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any source of them. The Value of Science.-PROF. T. H. HUXLEY. 15. All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; For the structure that we raise Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. The Builders.-HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. EXPULSIVE (Narrative). 16. The Major sat down at his accustomed table, and while the waiters went to bring him his toast and his newspaper, he surveyed his letters through his gold double eye-glass, examined one pretty note after another and laid them by in order. There were large solemn dinner cards, suggestive of three courses and heavy conversation; there were neat little confidential notes, and a note from a marquis, written on thick official paper. Having perused them the Major took out his pocket-book to see on what days he was disengaged, and which of these many hospitable calls he could afford to accept or decline. Pendennis.-WM. M. THACKERAY. |