First position. LESSON V. EXERCISES IN POSITION. 1. Change from first to fourth position by stepping forward to the left about six or eight inches at an angle of forty-five degrees. 2. Change from fourth to first by bringing up the right foot. 3. Change from fourth to third by stepping forward to the left. 4. Change from third to first by bringing up the left foot. Repeat these changes several times. EXERCISES IN BREATHING AND GESTURE. 1. Inhale slowly and quietly, and exhale slowly, while elevating and lowering the arms. 2. Place the arms akimbo, and inhale and exhale very rapidly several times. 1. I will not harm thee, boy. 2. The night was calm and beautiful. 3. The psalm was warrior David's song. 4. The balmy breath of incense-breathing morn. 5. Father, thy hand hath reared this venerable column. Having defined Pure Tone in the last and Expulsive Form in the second lesson, it will not be necessary to here repeat the definitions. The quality Pure Tone is the same in all forms. 1. The moon's pale light. 2. There is no longer any room for hope. 3. Soon we shall join the kindred dead. EXERCISES Contrasting Pure Tone Effusive and Pure Tone Expulsive. Repeat each of the above sounds, words, and sentences, with 1. Pure Tone, Effusive Form. 2. Pure Tone, Expulsive Form. PURE TONE, EXPULSIVE FORM-WHEN USED. Pure Tone, Expulsive Form, is appropriately employed chiefly in the expression of narrative, descriptive, didactic, and argumentative thought, in the form of scientific and literary lectures, doctrines, and practical sermons. This principle is illustrated in the earnest, direct utterances of children, the chattering of birds, and the clear ringing bark of the house dog when he welcomes you home; all pure in tone as well as Expulsive in Form. EXAMPLE: DIDACTIC THOUGHT. Hamlet's Advice to the Players. SHAKESPEARE. 1. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier had spoken my lines. And do not saw the air too much with your hands, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that will give it smoothness. 2. O it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who (for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. Pray you avoid it. 3. Be not too tame either, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of Nature, for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end is to hold, as it were, the mirror up to Nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the times their form and pressure. 4. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it may make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of which one must, in your allowance, outweigh a whole theater of others. O there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly-not to speak it profanely-that neither having the accent of Christian nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. QUESTIONS. 1. What is the prominent object of the vocal exercises in this lesson? 2. What is the difference between Expulsive Form and Expulsive Form, Pure Tone? 3. When should the Pure Tone, Expulsive Form, be used? 4. Where in nature is this principle taught? 5. Why does this selection require Pure Tone? 6. Why Explosive Form? 1. Change from first to second position by stepping forward with the left foot. 2. Change from second to third by stepping forward with the right foot. 3. From third to first by bringing up the left foot. EXERCISES IN BREATHING. Inhale quickly and exhale rapidly. Repeat several times. 1. The North is for war. 2. My voice is still for war. 3. The law must be obeyed. 4. The cause stands not on eloquence, but stands on laws. 5. All that I am, all that I hope in this life, I am now ready to stake. Review briefly Effusive and Expulsive Pure Tone. 1. Stand! the ground is your own. 2. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. 3. This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I. EXERCISES. Contrasting Pure Tone in Effusive, Expulsive, and Explosive Forms. Repeat each of the elements, words, and sentences with |