Lessons in expression and physical drill . ITION. 4. With the Drill Position (p. 10) repeat the prac-tice in Art. 2. 5. We have seen that thought is expressed by voiceand action. Now, pursuing our study we shall see thatthere are several attributes of voice which may bechanged. For instance, one will answer a questionvery differently as it pleases him or arouses otherfeelings. See if you answer these questions with thesame kind of voice. Would you like to have a schoolpicnic the next pleasant day ? Would you like tohave a dog bite you on your way home? If you cansee a difference in the tone, t
Lessons in expression and physical drill . ITION. 4. With the Drill Position (p. 10) repeat the prac-tice in Art. 2. 5. We have seen that thought is expressed by voiceand action. Now, pursuing our study we shall see thatthere are several attributes of voice which may bechanged. For instance, one will answer a questionvery differently as it pleases him or arouses otherfeelings. See if you answer these questions with thesame kind of voice. Would you like to have a schoolpicnic the next pleasant day ? Would you like tohave a dog bite you on your way home? If you cansee a difference in the tone, tell what the difference you could tell it better if you had some namesfor tones. 6. Voice varies in Quality, Force, Pitch, Movement,Inflection, Form, and Stress. 7. Quality is the Kind of Tone. The qualityof our ordinary tone should be clear, smooth, and mel-low like that of a flute—Pure Tone. For examples seeArts. 9, 28, 281. 8. Take the Speakers Position — body and headerect, chest expanded, one foot advanced so that the. Speakers 2. P. 13 14 STUDIES IX AOICE; physical exercises heel is toward the hollow of the other and one or twoinches from it, toes turned out as in the Drill you stand long, change by a single step forward orback so that the feet occupy one of these positions,that is, with the right foot advanced, which we willcall 1st Position (Fig. 2), or with the left foot ad-vanced, which we will call 2nd Position. 9. With the Speakers Position, using Pure Tone,recite the following as if they were your own words: Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands;And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. —H. W. Longfellow. Suggestive questions:— Which of these two positionsdo you habitually use most, Drill Position or SpeakersPosition? Which would soonest weary you if youwere to remain standing? Have you seen people standin any other positi
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