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Show VOICE so on. 43 We use the term quality of tone from two different stand the normal habitual quality of the indi points: first, signifying vidual; and second,' that quality modified by emotional The first is the result of the size, shape, and texture of response. all the resonance chambers-pharynx, larynx, mouth, nares, and This is the constitutional quality and, unless modified by chest. normal either good or bad habits, is basically unchangeable. We remember much as by their our friends and our enemies by their voices as faces. The voices of entire families become as much alike as other resemblances, largely because their vocal organs correspond bodily in shape and texture; but imitation, whether unconscious or not, also plays an important part in these vocal resemblances. the con Fugitive Quality. But when, as an expressive agent, the modified play of the through stitutional or habitual voice is the modifies reaction muscular size, shape, emotions, which through modification this of then we speak and texture of the vocal organs, For example, if we feel and experience the as the fugitive quality. chambers begin to relax and great, the wonderful, the resonance which Rush called the enlarge, producing a larger, more soulful tone, orotund. Mr. Clarke in commenting on this quality says, "Many students have endeavored to obtain this quality by shouting, or by loud holding the mouth open as if gaping, 'and have developed only hot a or hollow, merely round, ness without a trace of soulfulness, potato-in-the-throat kind of voice. "That peculiar quality expressive of enlarged feeling is not same loud. In fact, the voice/ may not be strong, but, at the neces sarily time, it may better than suggest grandeur and sublimity far a voice that has sheer loudness. the voice will grow "Develop the imagination, the soul, and But let, him out in to soul the expression. go through the effort of even if he never gets a voice. and vociferating, avoid mere shouting he must develop it. "If the student has not the imagination, less." Mere loudness is rant-nothing students to feel, Elevated Feeling. It is more difficult to get which elevated produces this the feeling and to want to express in one other interpretation. thing enlarged voice, than perhaps any soon as they go beyond the range of They seem to feel awkward as |
