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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...are under the influence of physical emotion, our voices harmonize in expression. "Hoarse with passion" is a common phrase. This voice is sometimes very effective in dramatic expression, but, if much used, hoarseness is sure to be the consequence. The mental voice expresses a hard, cold, scientific statement of facts. COLOR OF TONE. The voice is further colored by gesture. I have previously called your attention to the fact that the conditional attitudes of the hand sympathetically color the voice; and again, the expression of the face preceding the tone will color it. To quote Delsarte:--" The ravished listener should be dazzled by a song unheard as yet, but which he guesses or thinks he guesses." Loudness of tone is inconsistent with true feeling. The more one is moved, the lower the utterance. The voice is brilliant when there is little emotion. In deep feeling the heart seems to be in the throat and the voice is stifled. "The whining, tearful tone is always weak."--(Delsarte.) INFLECTION. We now approach a subject of great importance,--inflection. Inflection in gesture has been defined as a movement indicating a passing emotion. Inflection in voice also subtly indicates each passing thought. Hear again the master:--"Persuade yourself that there are blind men and deaf men in your audience whom you must move, interest and persuade! Your inflection must become pantomime to the blind, and your pantomime, inflection to the deaf." Inflections are rising, falling, or the voice rests in monotone. Thus they are excentric, concentric and normal. Combinations of these three produce the inflection named by English authorities circumflex. The shade, a poetic accent, is rather felt than expressed. It must be innate; it can be na...
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Delsarte System of Expression (Sixth edition, revised and enlarged)
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Dance Horizons, Brooklyn, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0871270951
ISBN 13: 9780871270955
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