lesson d-a. voice and diction

8/8/2019 Lesson D-A. Voice and Diction

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` To know the types of voice

` To identify the organs involved in speaking

` To pronounce words correctly and clearly


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` A voice type is a particular kind of human talking or

singing voice perceived as having certain identifying

qualities or characteristics.

` V

oice classification is the process by which humanvoices are evaluated and are thereby designated

into voice types.

` In singing, these qualities include but are not limited

to: vocal range, vocal weight, vocal tessitura,

vocal timbre, and vocal transition points such asbreaks and lifts within the voice.


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` Voice classificationconsiderations are physicalcharacteristics, speechlevel, scientific testing, and

vocal registration.` Voice classification is a tool

for singers, composers,venues, and listeners tocategorize vocal

properties, and toassociate possible roleswith potential voices.


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` There are a plethora of different voice types used by vocal

pedagogists today in a variety of voice classification

systems.

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Most of these types, however, are sub-types that fall underseven different major voice categories that are for the most

part acknowledged across all of the major voice

classification systems.

` Women are typically divided into three

groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto.

` Men are usually divided into four

groups: countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass.


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` An effective speaking voice is responsive to the

intentions of the speaker. It enables ones

feelings and thoughts.

` An effective speaking voice is so intimatelyassociated with what the speaker is saying that it

attracts no attention to itself and therefore does

not distract attention from what the speaker is

trying to communicate.


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` Manner of production- the voice, in itself, must not

attract attention.

` Sex, Age, and Physique- Mens voice is different

than the womens voice.` Listeners criteria- an effective voice is one which

can be heard without conscious effort or strain. It

is pleasant to hear, but the pleasure should be

unconscious and should not dominate thelisteners reactions.


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` Physical health- Voice reflects the presence or

absence of any specific and chronic condition.

Fatigue, common cold, and allergies that involve

the respiratory tract strongly affect how the voiceis produced.

` Mental health- A mentally healthy person is one

who is aware of what is going on about him and

responds, without violence to his own integrity, tothe demands of his environment.


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` Voice is the production of sound while speech isthe combination of sounds so that they becomesymbols that represent meanings to both speaker

and listener.` Quality is the distinctive characteristic of voice

that makes it pleasant or unpleasant. This isoften referred to as timbre or tone color.

` It is determined by the combination of resonances

(richness and volume) of sound, tone, timbrebetween individual voices so that one could beidentified.


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` Normal- the natural way of conversing that shows

little or no emotions. It is used in expressing

thoughts.

` Breathy- used when one wants to create anatmosphere of secrecy and mystery. This is an

aspirate quality.

` Full- used when the voice must be projected to a

greater distance, or when the occasion is formalor dignified. It is also referred to as an orotund

(round mouth).


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` Chesty- a deep hollow voice as if coming from a

deep and empty cave. It has pectoral quality that

makes it particularly effective in speaking the part

of a spirit.` Thin- this quality is high-pitched. It has a falsetto

quality that occurs only in extreme fatigue,

weakening, old age or in extreme excitement.


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` Hush! Dont speak to me, Willis! You unnatural,

cruel heartless Why did you let me come in? I

wonder at you, Willis! If you had been half the

brother you ought to be- oh, dear, dear! I knowhow you will go away and laugh now, and tell

everybody. I suppose you think it corroborates

that silly speech of yours before the legislative

committee thats wounded all your best friends so,and that Ive been talking dumb defending you

about.


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Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

Oh, no! it is an ever fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worths unknown, although his height be

taken.


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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but

have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging

cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and

understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and ifI have faith so as to remove mountains but have

not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have,

and ifI deliver my body to be burned but have not

love, I gain noting.


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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or

boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not

insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

it does not rejoice at the wrong but rejoices in theright. Love bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.


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` Key tone- the general pitch level that varies from

person to person. It should be in the lower half of

your natural range, but the voice must not stay in

that key.` Voice Inflections- the change in pitch that occurs

between syllables or words. It adds color in

conversations and influence listeners to respond

with more interest and pleasure.` Melody patterns- the rhythm and swing of phrases

and sentences that form into a continuous pattern

as mood changes.


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` The money is mine, not yours, mine mine mine!

` Youre nothing but a second rate trying hard

copycat!

` I never said that I love you!

` Please dont bore me with your questions.


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O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name!

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And Ill no longer be a Capulet.

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself though not a Montague.

Whats Montague?It is nor hand nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!


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Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the

dark inn-yard

And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all

was locked and barred;He whistled a tune to the window, and who should

be waiting there

But the landlords black-eyed daughter, Bess, the

landlords daughter,

Plaiting a dark red love knot into her long black hair.


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Ivan, dont go to the fair! his wife begged. I dreamed

last night that you got into trouble while you were

away, and then I saw that your hair had turned gray.

Ivan laughed. Thats a lucky sign, he said. See if Idont sell all my goods and bring you some presents

from the fair. What are you afraid of?

His wife replied, I dont know what I am afraid of.

Please dont go.


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They tell us, Sir, that we are weak, unable to copewith so formidable an adversary. But when shall webe stronger? Will it be next week, or next year? Willit be when we are totally disarmed and when a

British guard shall be stationed in every house?Shall we gather strength by irresolution andinaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectualresistance by lying supinely on our backs andhugging phantom of hope, until our enemies shallhave bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weakif we make proper use of those means which theGod of nature hath placed in our power.


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` Loudness or intensity refers to the effect of a sound

on the ear-its loudness or softness.

` It should be varied because differences in volume

make it possible for the listener to sense thedifferences in meaning and therefore, interpret the

speakers intentions.

` Degree of force in speaking refers to the amount

of force applied.` Form of force in speaking refers to the manner in

which the force is applied-sudden, steady,

increasing, etc.


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` Degrees of Emphasis- force can be applied in varying

degrees of emphasis, such as a sharp reduction or a

sharp increase in intensity. This can be done by

increasing the loudness of a word or phrase, bygradually decreasing its loudness, or by applying a

degree of force to a word or phrase. Ex. You are a

disgrace to our family.

` Forms of intensity- the manner in which force is applied-

gradual but firm (effusive), firm but rapid (expulsive),

sudden outburst (explosive)- indicating a change in

feeling or emotion. Ex. Die!


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It is vain, Sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may

cry peace, but there is no peace. The war has actually

begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will

bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Whystand we here idle! What is it that Gentlemen wish?

What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so

sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and

slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what

course others may take, but as for me, Give meliberty or give me death!


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Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells!

What a word of merriment their melody fortells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!

While the stars that oversprinkleAll the heavens, seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight;

Keeping time, time, time in a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bellsFrom the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.


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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them,

The good is oft interred with their bones.

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told

you Caesar was ambitious.

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answerd it.


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I am a Filipino-inheritor of a glorious past, hostage of

the uncertain future. As such I must prove equal to

a twofold task- the task of meeting my responsibility

to the past and the task of performing my obligationto the future.

I am sprung from a hardy race, child of many

generations removed of ancient Malayan pioneers.

Across the centuries the memory comes rushingback to me; of brown-skinned men putting out to

sea in ships that were as frail as their hearts were

stout.


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I am a Filipino. In my blood runs the immortal seed

of heroes- seed that flowered down the centuries

in deeds of courage and defiance. In my veins yet

pulses the same hot blood that sent Lapu-lapu tobattle against the first invader of this land, that

nerved Lakandula in the combat against the alien

foe, that drove Diego Silang and Dagohoy into

rebellion against the foreign oppressor.


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` Volume is the degree of loudness, and projection

is the process of directing the voice to a specific

target.

` It requires the speaker to define the message andidentify the target or focus of the message.

` The target is the particular direction to which you

are aiming and addressing- the person-or your

VOICE FOCUS.


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` Carry your tone or throw out your voice as far as thespeech and the situation will require.

` Practice proper breathing control.

` Identify your listeners and acknowledge youraudience; reach out everyone in the room and directyour voice to them.

` Develop a very positive attitude toward speaking toan audience.

` Cultivate a sense of participation with your listeners.` Always direct your thoughts toward the last row of

listeners.


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Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,

barrel-house kings with feet unstable,

Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,

Pounded on the table,

Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,

hard as they were able,

Boom, boom, BOOM

With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,

Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.


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Ill walk where my own nature would be leading-

It vexes me to choose another guide-

Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding,

Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.


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Not from the whole wide world would I choose thee,

Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!

The wide, wide world could not enclose thee,

For thou art the whole wide world to me.


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` This is referred to as the variations in speed. It

depends on the thought you are expressing.

` It is also a reflection of a speakers mood.

` Speed of ones utterance may vary from time totime and from passage to passage.


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When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad song for me;

Plant thou no roses at my head,

Nor shady cypress tree:

Be the green grass above me

With showers and dewdrops wet;

And if thou wilt, remember,

And if thou wilt, forget.


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I am tired of tears and laughter,

And men that laugh and weep;

Of what may come hearafter

For men that sow to reap:

I am weary of days and hours,

Blown buds of barren flowers,

Desires and dreams and powers,

And everything but sleep.


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` Read to class one or two stanzas of your favorite

poem or speech or prose.

` Well critique one another using the guidelines

previously discussed.` Be ready for an oral quiz.

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