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Show 9 SOMEWHAT HISTORICAL is termed in music the scale. It is the primary element oi effect and significance in speech, and may, in all its varieties, be brought per fectly under the command Df the organs [or the purposes o] art." Professor Raymond on the other hand defines, "The melody o] the movement taken by the voice represents, therejore, like the melody in music, the mind's mDtive,-indicates its purpose in using the par ticular phraseology to' which the melody is applied; and because pitch, through the kinds oi inflectiDns and melody chosen, reveals the motives, we shall find that the use oi this element in ordinary conuersation is constantly causing precisely the same phraseology to' express entirely op-posite meanings." Raymond. Compare Murdock's "Quality is the kind o] voice, and is pDpularly designated as rough, smooth, harsh, full, thin, musical, and so on. It is here more definitely de scribed under the divisions o] the 'natural,' the 'asperated,' the '[alsetto? an improved quality called 'the orotund, the pectoral, the guttural,' with Professor Raymond's statement that "Quality mani Murdock versus fests emotional states." "Force;" Murdock claims, "is the term used to' designate the pourer, the energy, Dr intensity with which a sound o] the voice is uttered. Its degrees are designated by the terms 'loud, soit, jorcible, weak, strong, feeble, vehement, and moderate:' The differnt [orms o] its specific ap-plication are exhibited in what is called stress, Dr the ap-plication o] [orce to' certain parts Dr to' the iuhole o] the extent oi a syllable." Raymond says, "Force manifests the degree Df W hen we speak in a loud uoice, there is much mental energy. energy; when sojtiy there is little." With regard to' indi means the duration oi and quantity, syllables, sound heard on each, as the long quantity Dr short quantity oi a syllable. Time also relates to' the rapidity Dr sloumess o] utterance in the succession oi any series Dr aggregate oi ioords:" Raymond strikes the keynote of speech psychology declaring that, "The relative time ap-portioned to' a uiord indicates the mind's measurement oi it,-represents the speaker's judgment as to' the amount oj meaning Dr im-portance it conveys," "Time is the duration Dr measure oi sound, vidual Modern it is called Ideals. The difference between the Rush-Murdock |
