A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . rand outlines of the picture, and thenotes of the syllables not included in the emphasismelodies, constitute the filling up and the shading of it. The graphic notes of song represent absolute, as wellas relative pitch. But as the graphic notes of an em-phasis melody of speech denote relative pitch only, twoemphasis melodies similarly constructed, though differ-ent in their relative intervals, may be represented bythe same series of graphic notes. In reading emphasis melodie
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . rand outlines of the picture, and thenotes of the syllables not included in the emphasismelodies, constitute the filling up and the shading of it. The graphic notes of song represent absolute, as wellas relative pitch. But as the graphic notes of an em-phasis melody of speech denote relative pitch only, twoemphasis melodies similarly constructed, though differ-ent in their relative intervals, may be represented bythe same series of graphic notes. In reading emphasis melodies, beginners are apt tomake the intervals too great. Care should be takento avoid this fault, or the melody will be little practice, under a good teacher, will enable 56 ELOCUTION. almost any one, who is not insensible to the changesof pitch, to observe the proper intervals with tolerableaccuracy. And as these melodies are founded in thenature of the subject, those who have a taste for elocu-tion will scarcely require a teacher, for they will readthem, as it were, by intuition. CHAPTER III. MODULATION is a chang-ing of the pitch-note to ahigher or lower degree of ele-vation — in other words, itis the process of changing thekey, or of passing from onekey to another. This changeis sometimes made to a proxi-mate key; at other times, a bold and abrupt transitionto a remote key is necessary to produce the desiredeffect. Modulation is generally attended with a changeof force, or time; and, not unfrequently, with a changeof both. There is not a more important requisite inElocution — nothing which contributes more to thepleasure of an audience — nothing which gives strongerproof that an orator is master of his art, than a well-regulated and expressive modulation. Modulation,however, should never be resorted to for the sake ofmere variety— it should always be subservient to thesense; for it is the province of modulation to markchanges of sentiment, cha
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