Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain storm! Utter forth" God!" and fill the hills with praise! COLERIDGE. 3. Admiration, joined with the purpose to make others admire. Example. How beautiful she is! how fair She lies within those arms, that press Of tenderness and watchful care. LONGFELLOW. 4. Joy or Exultation, with the purpose to lead others to rejoice. Example. Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Ps. lxxxi. 1. Median Stress (<>), expressing generically a "swell," is the vocal expression for this form of volition. It is usually accompanied by a slight rise and fall in the pitch, similar to the falling circumflex, but not heard as inflection. Study the swell with pure tone, and allow the feelings to be elevated with the increase of tone. Expansibility and fullness of voice are the means for the expression of this property. A large motion is the gesture for median stress, curving, often "ascending oblique," with expanding, stretching palm, frequently employing both hands. Practice gesture with swell on the vowels. Never allow the tone to become hard or rough. Full swell should produce full resonance. IV. MIXED TYPES. 1. Establishment. Dignity and Weight characterize utterances of this type. The impression is made, not so much by insistence or cumulation, as by the display of an even, firm, and elevated property, typifying the greatest possible appreciation of nobility and resistless strength. It will be accompanied by emotional conditions belonging under either "enlargement or "sternness" in its nobler varieties. Examples. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. — Ex. xx. 1, 2. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Let it pry through the portage of the head, O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide; The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry God for Harry! England! and Saint George! Thorough Stress (- −), expressing, generically, sustained force, is the symbol of this form of volition. It is approximately equal throughout the phrase or passage so emphasized. This quality of force will tend to produce also monotony of inflection; both together will give the stateliness, the staid and solid effect, which this type of volition requires. The tone is to be prepared by first singing and chanting with full voice, then practicing passages with the "calling tone," sustaining the force as nearly equal as possible throughout the passage. In drilling on this form of volition it will often be useful to employ prolonged or repeated gesture, oblique, horizontal, or ascending. Full extension of arm will usually be suitable, accompanying the thorough stress. Paraphrase for Prolonged Enforcement. This type of energy, in its more rhetorical use, is well exemplified in the even, sustained dignity of such passages as the following from the Psalms : "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all." Expand by interlining considerations that will help you to realize the elevation and grandeur of the thought. the Eternal One, the Self Existent; He who is the his commands go forth to all the universe, thus and his kingdom with eter ruleth established on a sure foundation, unshaken, immovable, destined completely to triumph over all opposing forces, nal power and grace over both those who gladly accept his domin ion and those who weakly try to resist his power: all alike shall feel and own the eternal supremacy of the righteous King, 2. Violence. all. Perturbation of mind is always present in this form of volition. The will acts in a more or less interrupted or spasmodic way, under conflicting motives to suddenness and to insistence. There is an impulse toward abruptness, but not simply the abruptness of surprise, impatience, or uncontrolled feeling; it is rather that of deep and tumultuous passion, mingled with the sense of pressure or weight. It is found in strong natures under powerful emotions which they are able only in part to control. The emotions are of the "agitated" class. Find examples of this in the Closet Scene of Hamlet, Act III. Scene iv.; and in Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene i. Compound Stress (><) is the form of vocal energy expressing this mood. It produces a double shock. This tone can scarcely be given with the voice alone. It must be practiced with gesture, which will frequently be given with clenched fist or strong pulse of palm and fingers, frequently with repeated stroke, or shake. The compound stress is quite analogous to compound inflection, representing a double motive or impulse in the mind. Usually the two impulses which combine to form this composite effect may be revealed by analysis, which will show the reason for the presence of the two elements in the thought. Paraphrase for Violence. Here, evidently, emotion will be more apparent, and will form a larger percentage of the expressional power. The interlineations will be such as to reveal a disturbed, violently moved, shocked condition of the sensibilities, together with an impetuous, unrestrained, and yet powerful, insistent action of the will. Let this attitude be illustrated by the following passage from The Vision of Don Roderick by Scott: He stayed his speech abrupt -and up the prelate stood. 'O hardened offspring of an iron race! Who, scarce repentant, makes his crime his boast? Unless, in mercy to yon Christian host He spare the shepherd, lest the guileless sheep be lost." " Observe that the first three lines quoted hint at the pantomimic condition and expression, which justifies the following speech. The tense, disturbed, abrupt action will of course be expressed in the paraphrase by a violent exclamatory utterance, interjected between the words of the text; thus: O hardened cruel, conscienceless, defiant, brazen offspring |