EFFUSIVE FINAL. Effusive Final Stress expresses pleading and yearning. 50. Oh, the blissful meeting to come one day When the spirit slips out of its house of clay; Until eye to eye without fear I see God and my lost, as they see me. The Three Meetings.-D. M. CRAIG. EXPULSIVE FINAL. Expulsive Final Stress expresses doggedness, scorn and great determination. 51. Brutus, bay not me! I'll not endure it! You forget yourself to hedge me in. I am a soldier, I, older in practice, Abler than yourself to make conditions." Julius Cæsar.-SHAKESPEARE. EXPLOSIVE FINAL. Explosive Final Stress expresses great anger when as sociated with defiance or revenge. 52. Thou slave! thou wretch! thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by,' To teach thee safety! King John.-SHAKESPEARE. 46 Stress. common street cries, and is chiefly used in shouting or calling where a full, sustained tone is necessary. It is naturally 58. Here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man. 59. King Lear.-SHAKESPEARE. And see! she stirs! she starts-she moves-she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And spurning with her foot the ground With one exulting, joyous bound She leaps into the ocean's arms! The Launching of the Ship.-LONGFELLOW. MOVEMENT. Movement (time in Music) refers to the rate of utterance, and is one of the most important elements of expression. "As an illustration of the power of movement, observe the difference between a school-boy gabbling through his task in haste to get rid of it, and a great tragedian whose whole soul is rapt in the part of Cato, uttering his soliloquy on immortality, or Hamlet musing on the great themes of duty, life, and death."-Russell. [It is suggested that practice upon the exercises in Movement be limited to Slow, Medium and Quick, except in individual cases of too slow or too rapid utterance.] VERY SLOW. Very Slow Movement is the least used, being appropriate only for the strongest emotions; as, profound reverence, awe, or horror. 60. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up; it stood still but I could not discern the form thereof; an image was before mine eyes; then was silence, and I heard a voice saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?"—Bible. SLOW. Slow Movement characterizes the utterance of repose, tenderness, grief, pathos, vastness and great power. 61. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade where each shall take Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but sustained and soothed About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Thanatopsis.-WM. CULLEN BRYANT. Medium or Moderate Movement is used in the ordinary speaking voice; consequently, in all ordinary reading. 62. An immortal instinct, deep within the spirit of man, is a sense of the beautiful. It is in music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which it struggles when inspired by the poetic sentiment the creation of beauty. We are often made to feel, with a shivering delight, that from an earthly harp are stricken notes which cannot have been unfamiliar to the angels. The old bards and minnesingers had advantages which we do not possess, and Thomas Moore, singing his own songs, was perfecting them as poems. The Poetic Principle.-EDGAR ALLAN POE. QUICK. Quick Movement is only a little more rapid than Medium, and is characteristic of excitement, fear, great earnestness, playful or joyous emotions. |