Voice Economy: a Lecture Delivered At Oxford, August, 1901
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" By universal consent,'' Hullah says, "the highest tribute to a voice is conveyed in the word musical — not used figuratively or analogically, but simply and directly. By a musical voice is always meant a voice the very sound of which gives pleasure, altogether irrespective of the sense conveyed by it. The problem is, how is speech to be made more musical without being turned into song?" (not to mention sing-song!). Hullah in part answers his own question by saying that " the Speaking Voice wo...uld be best formed, and soonest brought under control, by the practice of musical sounds, in other words by learning to sing." It would seem that the Americans recognize the distinct difference often existing between the timbre of the Singing Voice and the Speaking Voice more fully than ourselves, if one may judge from the follow- ing paragraph by an American writer which appeared lately in the Westminster Gazette: — "Although you have as a nation amazingly bad singing voices, your speaking voices are the most musical in the world." I wonder if we, as a nation, quite deserve the last favourable opinion !
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