The School Reader

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Remark.?The rising inflection and circumflex are so nearly allied, that, in many instances, it may be difficult to determine which should receive the preference in the reading of a passage. This is particularly the case where intense inflection is not required. But the difference between the circumflex and the falling inflection is so obvious, that no one would be liable to mistake which should be employed. SECTION IV. MODULATION. MODULATION implies those variations of the voice, heard in reading or speaking, which are prompted by the feelings and emotions that the subject inspires. BXAMPLES. EXPRESSIVE OF COURAGE AND CHIVALROUS EXCITEMENT. Pull ( Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Tone. 1 Or close the wall up with our English dead I Middle I In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, Tone. ( As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; And gtjffen the sNmewSi summon up the blood, yuio Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage. High And Loud. On, ON, you noblest English, Whoso blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof I Fathers, that, like so many Alexanders, Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought, And sheathed their swords for lack of argument Quick fl see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Amd Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Very ] Follow your spirits, and, upon this charge, Loud. [crt?Heaven Fob Haebt! England! And St. Geobgh I Shali-speare. Questions.?What is Modulation ? Give an example Remark.?To read the foregoing example in one dull, monotonous tone of voice, without regard to the sentiment expressed, would render the passage extremely insipid and lifeless. But by a proper modulation of the voice, it...