1. Pull, pull for your lives. 2. The fuller fulls his cloth. 3. The bullet passed near his face. 4. Full many a gem of purest ray serene. 5. Put none but Americans on guard to-night. Pectoral Quality. The Pectoral is that quality of voice in which the breath is sent forth in a harsh, husky sound, with the resonance in the upper part of the throat. This quality of voice is frequently illustrated by persons whose organs have been injured by strong drink. To acquire control of the Pectoral Quality, practice the following elements, words, and sentences in the Effusive Form, with the organs rigid and contracted so as to obstruct the passage of the air, and thus produce a harsh, hard tone. EXERCISES IN PECTORAL, EFFUSIVE FORM. 1. a, as heard in ale, pale. 2. "Tis a time for memory and for tears. 3. I had a dream which was not all a dream. 4. Now o'er the one half world nature seems dead. EXERCISES Contrasting Effusive Pure Tone and Aspirate, Orotund, and Pectoral. Repeat the above sounds, words, and sentences with 1. Effusive Pure Tone. 2. Effusive Aspirate. 3. Effusive Orotund. 4. Effusive Pectoral. PECTORAL, EFFUSIVE FORM-WHEN USED. The Pectoral in the Effusive Form is the quality appropriate for the expression of deepest solemnity and awe, suppressed horror, dread, despair, and similar passions, in their mildest form. EXAMPLE: DEEP SOLEMNITY, SUBLIMITY, AND AWE. Pectoral, Effusive Form. The Closing Year. PRENTICE. 1. 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now 2. 3. Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling-'tis the knell Is sweeping past; yet, on the stream and wood, Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form, In mournful cadences, that come abroad Like the far wind harp's wild and touching wail, Gone from the earth forever. For memory and for tears. Still chambers of the heart, 'Tis a time Within the deep, a specter dim, Whose tones are like the wizard voice of Time Heard from the tomb of ages, points its cold And solemn finger to the beautiful And holy visions that have passed away, And left no shadow of their loveliness On the dead waste of life. That specter lifts The coffin-lid of Hope and Joy and Love, And, bending mournfully above the pale, Sweet forms, that slumber there, scatters dead flowers The year Has gone, and with it many a glorious throng 4. Its shadow in each heart. In its swift course It passed o'er The battle-plain, where sword and spear and shield It heralded its millions to their home In the dim land of dreams. 5. Remorseless Time! 6. Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe! what power Can stay him in his silent course, or melt His iron heart to pity? On, still on He presses, and forever. The proud bird, The condor of the Andes, that can soar Through heaven's unfathomable depths, or brave The fury of the northern hurricane, And bathe his plumage in the thunder's home, Furls his broad wings at nightfall, and sinks down To rest upon his mountain crag; but Time Revolutions sweep O'er earth, like troubled visions o'er the breast To their mysterious caverns; mountains rear To heaven their bald and blackened cliffs, and bow And, like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, QUESTIONS. 1. What quality is presented in this lesson? 2. Define it. 3. To which class of qualities does it belong? 4. What is the topic of this lesson? 5. What the principle? 6. Mention some example in nature illustrating this principle. 7. Why does the selection require Pectoral Quality? 8. Why does it require Effusive Form? |