1. Time and tide wait for no man. 3. Touch not, taste not, handle not. 4. Turn their uprooted trunks toward the skies. 5. Tremble and totter, ye adamantine mountains. Low Pitch. Low Pitch will be the two, three, or four notes below the middle. To widen the compass and to cultivate the low tones, practice the following sounds, words, and sentences on a low key, in both Effusive and Expulsive Forms. 1. There is no God but thee. 2. It is a religion by which to live. 3. The tears of a nation fall over the dead. EXERCISES Combining Form, Quality, Force, Stress, and Low Pitch. Repeat the first of the above sentences with 1. Expulsive Form, Pure Tone, Moderate Force, Radical Stress, and Low Pitch. The second and third sentences with 2. Effusive Form, Orotund Quality, Energetic Force, Median Stress, Low Pitch. Low PITCH-WHEN USED. Low Pitch is the key appropriate for the delivery of serious, solemn, pathetic, grave, devotional, sublime and grand thoughts of a quiet and unimpassioned character. EXAMPLE: SOLEMN, PATHETIC, AND GRAND. Low Pitch, Median and Thorough Stress, Moderate Force, Orotund Quality, Expulsive and Effusive Forms. In Memoriam-A. Lincoln. MRS. EMILY J. BUGBEE. 1. There's a burden of grief on the breezes of spring, For a star hath gone out from the night of our sky, 2. A heart that we knew had been true to our weal, And the true hand lies nerveless and cold on his breast: 3. Yet the tears of a nation fall over the dead, 5. Yet there on the mountain our leader must die, And his name, reaching down through the ages of time, 6. His white tent is pitched on the beautiful plain, Where the smoke of the war-cloud ne'er darkens the air, The songs of the ransomed enrapture his ear, 7. Then bear him home gently, great son of the West! A Mecca his grave to the people shall be, QUESTIONS. 1. What is the element in this lesson? 2. What is the topic? 3. What the principle? 4. Define Low Pitch. 5. Is it the same in all voices? 6. Explain why. 7. Why does the selection require Low Pitch? 8. Why does the selection require both Median and Thorough Stress? 9. Are they both on the same word? 10. Explain how both Effusive and Expulsive Forms can be given in the selection. 4. Selection. "In Memoriam-A. Lincoln." Articulation. Definition. Illustration. Advantages. 1. Kill a king. 2. Crown the victor. 3. Keep thy own counsels. 4. Kindness kills the cause of hate. High Pitch. High Pitch will be three, five, or eight notes above Middle Pitch. Practice the following sounds, words, and sentences on tones several notes higher than the Middle Pitch. EXERCISES IN HIGH PITCH. 1. And the landscape sped away behind. 2. I come, I come, ye have called me long. 3. And the earth resounds with the joy of waves. |