. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . ch the speaker pronounced the firstand third section in the above sentence, is good; and had he pro-nounced the second section in the same pitch and force with thefirst, his elocution would have been faultless. There are other public speakers who never modulate their voices,however necessary it may be to give proper expression to their sen-timents; and, what is worse, they generally pitch their voices athird, a fifth, or an octave too high. I once listened to an excellentdiscourse, from a very learned man, which, however, was nearlylost upon the a
. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . ch the speaker pronounced the firstand third section in the above sentence, is good; and had he pro-nounced the second section in the same pitch and force with thefirst, his elocution would have been faultless. There are other public speakers who never modulate their voices,however necessary it may be to give proper expression to their sen-timents; and, what is worse, they generally pitch their voices athird, a fifth, or an octave too high. I once listened to an excellentdiscourse, from a very learned man, which, however, was nearlylost upon the audience from the disgusting manner in which it wasdelivered. The lecturer pitched his voice an octave too high, and FORCE, 59 spoke an hour and a half, without any variation in pitch, force, ortime; and, what rendered his delivery still more offensive, everysyllable was marred with an intolerable drawling. Such elocutionis discreditable to any man who speaks in public, and ought not tobe tolerated by an educated community. SECTION III. ORCE is the degree of the loud-ness of sounds. It is also thedegree of exertion with whichsounds are made. A lax division of force is intoloud and soft: those sounds arecalled loud, which are madewith greater effort than the or-dinary tones of conversation ; and those are called soft,which are made with less effort. Some use the terms high and low, as synonymous with loud andsoft. But this is an improper application of these words. Highand low regard the acuteness and gravity of sounds only, and nottheir force: a sound may be high and soft, as well as high and loud—a sound may also be low and loud, as well as low and soft. For convenience, force is divided into nine degrees are expressed by the following abbre«viations: PPP (pianissimo), .. as soft as possible. pp (piu piano), more soft, very soft. p (piano), soft. mp (mezzo piano),.. middling soft, rather soft. m (mezzo), half, middle, mean. mf (mezzo forte), .. middling
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