EXERCISES Combining Form, Quality, Force, Stress, High and Middle Pitch. Repeat each of the last sentences with 1. Expulsive Form, Pure Tone, Moderate Force, Radical Stress, High Pitch. 2. Explosive Form, Pure Tone, Energetic Force, Radical Stress, High Pitch. 3. Effusive Form, Pure Tone, Subdued Force, Median Stress, Low Pitch. HIGH PITCH-WHEN USED. High Pitch is the key appropriate for the delivery of animated, joyous, gay, earnest, and impassioned thought. EXAMPLE: ANIMATED JOYOUS THOUGHT. High Pitch, Radical Stress, Energetic Force, Pure Tone, Expulsive and Explosive Forms. I'm With You Once Again. G. P. MORRIS. 1. I'm with you once again, my friends; Or streams so broad and clear; 2. Since last, with spirits wild and free, I've seen fair regions of the earth Which taught me how to prize the worth 3. In other countries, when I heard How fondly each familiar word Awoke an answering tone! But when our woodland songs were sung The vows that faltered on the tongue 4. My native land, I turn to you With blessing and with prayer, Long may our flag in triumph wave And friends a welcome, foes a grave, QUESTIONS. 1. Define High Pitch. 2. When is it appropriately employed? 3. With what combinations will it generally be found 4. Can you have High Pitch with Effusive Form? 5. Can you find an illustration in nature? 6. Can you in art? 7. What is the combination of the railroad whistle? 8. What the neigh of a horse? 4. Selection. "I'm With You Once Again." 1. Charge, Chester! charge! 2. Change cannot change thee. 3. Children choose trifling toys. 4. Chaucer's poetry charmed the chief. Very Low Pitch. Very Low Pitch will be two or three tones below the lowest notes of the Low Pitch; the range in the lower notes being much less than in the High or Middle. To cultivate the Very Low Pitch practice the following sounds, words, and sentences in the lowest key possible. EXERCISES IN VERY LOW PITCH. 1. And thou art terrible. 2. Come in consumption's ghastly form. 3. No smiting hand is seen; no sound is heard. EXERCISES Combining Form, Quality, Force, Stress, and Pitch. Repeat each of the last sentences with 1. Effusive Form, Pectoral Quality, Energetic Force, Thorough Stress, Very Low Pitch. 2. Expulsive Form, Pure Tone, Energetic Force, Radical Stress, High Pitch. 3. Effusive Form, Orotund Quality, Moderate Force, Median Stress, Low Pitch. 4. Expulsive Form, Pure Tone, Moderate Force, Radical Stress, Middle Pitch. VERY LOW PITCH-WHen Used. Very Low Pitch is the key appropriate for the expression of deep solemnity, sublimity, grandeur, amazement, horror, despair, melancholy, awe, and gloom. EXAMPLE: DEEP SOLEMNITY, AWE, AND GLOOM. Thorough Stress, Energetic Force, Orotund and Pectoral Qualities, Effusive and Expulsive Forms. [Only the fifth stanza in the following selection requires the combination given above.] Marco Bozzaris, FITZ GREENE HALLECK. 1. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk lay dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, In dreams, through camp and court he bore In dreams, his song of triumph heard; Then pressed that monarch's throne-a king: 2. At midnight, in the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's thousands stood; And now there breathed that haunted air 3. An hour passed on: the Turk awoke: He woke to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!" And death-shots falling thick and fast “Strike!—till the last armed foe expires; 4. They fought like brave men, long and well; Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their loud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Like flowers at set of sun. 5. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! |