Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and InterpretationHarper & brothers, 1911 - 330 pages |
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... Imaginative Vigor . DISCUSSION : The Picture , the Atmosphere , the Action . MATERIAL : Short Story and Epic Poetry , with Suggestive Analysis . SELECTIONS FOR INTERPRETATION . FIFTH STUDY : -To Develop Dramatic Instinct . DISCUSSION ...
... Imaginative Vigor . DISCUSSION : The Picture , the Atmosphere , the Action . MATERIAL : Short Story and Epic Poetry , with Suggestive Analysis . SELECTIONS FOR INTERPRETATION . FIFTH STUDY : -To Develop Dramatic Instinct . DISCUSSION ...
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... imagination would never have served me as it has , but for the habit of commonplace , humble , patient , daily , toiling , drudging atten- tion " ? It was Charles Dickens . Who said " The secret of a Wall Street million is common ...
... imagination would never have served me as it has , but for the habit of commonplace , humble , patient , daily , toiling , drudging atten- tion " ? It was Charles Dickens . Who said " The secret of a Wall Street million is common ...
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... imaginative thinking , which is vital thinking , may be invested with personal significance and be- come a personally interesting fact . Try it ! Say your " tables of one " up to ten times one is ten , thinking vitally , which means ...
... imaginative thinking , which is vital thinking , may be invested with personal significance and be- come a personally interesting fact . Try it ! Say your " tables of one " up to ten times one is ten , thinking vitally , which means ...
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... imagination . Let something of the spirit which informs that lovely child , lifting her eyes , her head in an attitude of listening rapture , steal over you . I know her power . I have tested it . In reading the " Skylark " with a class ...
... imagination . Let something of the spirit which informs that lovely child , lifting her eyes , her head in an attitude of listening rapture , steal over you . I know her power . I have tested it . In reading the " Skylark " with a class ...
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... imagination and tone . Let us try it . Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest , Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest , And singing still dost soar , and soaring ever singest . Again all the words rise and float ...
... imagination and tone . Let us try it . Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest , Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest , And singing still dost soar , and soaring ever singest . Again all the words rise and float ...
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Adelaide Neilson Alice aloud artist audience auditor beauty birds blithe Spirit breath change of pitch character circumflex cloud color corsets cried dear diaphragm Dramatic Lyrics drudgery elements Ellen Terry Elsie emotion English exercise exposition eyes Fair Lady feel girl give hand heart Hervé Riel humor imagination impersonation inflection Lochinvar look lyre lyric lyric poetry Maggie master Maurice Maeterlinck ment mind Mouse mouth muscles nature Netherby never night o'er once pause phrase play poem poet preter RICHARD HOVEY SELECTIONS FOR INTERPRETATION sense sentence singing Skylark smile song soul sound speak speech spirit Stradivarius student STUDIES IN VOCAL suggestive analysis sweet swift teacher tell thee thing thou thought throat tion to-day tone-color tongue true verse vocal expression vocal interpretation vocal vocabulary voice Vordingborg Walrus whimsical words
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Page 82 - GROW old along with me ! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are in His hand Who saith ' A whole I planned, Youth shows but half ; trust God : see all, nor be afraid...
Page 115 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 109 - O thou Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill ; Wild Spirit which art moving everywhere ; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!
Page 120 - O, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars...
Page 110 - Angels of rain and lightning ! there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm.
Page 111 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Page 104 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 30 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 113 - THOU still unravished bride of quietness! Thou foster-child of silence and slow time ! Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loth ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye...
Page 116 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.