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Show 38 HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION produces both musical and speech notes; the anatomy and physi ology are alike. But the speech voice and the singing voice are very For example, take the simple function of different in execution. The speaker must take breath before each idea, there breathing. learn to breathe, as he thinks, between ideas, so that should fore he thinking will help the breathing, and vice versa. When breath be taken so frequently there is no need of exercises for breath There is no reason why the breath should be held' and control. breathe conserved, since the reader or speaker may find places to and must on the long The practice singer, everywhere. other hand, be order to in control to the breath, ability patiently to develop the cadenzas. and sustained hold Moreover, able to notes, long musical note differ so radically very mechanism and exactness of the that from the speech note, beyond learning the physiology and me voice chanics of, production, training in singing but partially helps the to improve speaking voice. A song note is always held on one degree of pitch for a definite period of time, but the speech note strikes through several degrees of pitch with one impulse,' and may must even compass an octave or more. One of the reasons for the stutter er's being able to sing is that the song note is exact and definitely timed. But the nervous reaction from the complexity of the mentl impulse and the indefiniteness and variation of the speech note" produce such nervous paroxysm that it is only with great difficulty that the speech defective can make himself understood in the speech medium. Two improve the voice One is to engage specialists in voice building and Suggestions. in the classroom. There are two ways to send to them any students who may need vocal treatment. Vocal culture is an individual matter, and the methods of treatment of the carefully differentiated according to the needs of the methods of treatment of any other bodily ailment. No one but a quack would think of treating patients by the wholesale. When we are physically afflicted we visit a specialist, A have our case diagnosed, and receive individual treatment. voice must be as the individual as special voice teacher is almost as necessary to any school system as are the doctors and children today. nurses who take care of the health' of our |
