When the winds and the waves lie together asleep, And the Moon and the Fairy are watching the deep, She dispensing her silvery light, And he his notes as silvery quite, While the boatman listens and ships his óar, Are set to words: as they flóat, they say, From gold to gray, our mild, sweet day PIERFONT. Hangs, white and calm, the hunter's moon. Shows like the zodiac's spectral lance; CONCERT DRILL ON PURE TONE. WHITTIER. 1. Repeat, four times, the long vowels, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū: (1) With moderate force, pure (2) With soft or gentle force. tone, and sustained force.. tone, and rising inflection. (3) With high pitch, pure 2. Count from one to fifty: (1) With quiet conversational tone and rising inflection. (2) Falling inflection. (3) Circumflex inflection. (4) The monotone. 3. Give the sound of long o, prolonged for ten seconds; of ä; of ē. 4. In high pitch, and thin, clear, pure tone, call as to persons at a distance: ho! ho! ho! II. THE OROTUND. 1. The orotund is a round, deep, full, clear, resonant chest tone of voice. It has the flow and fullness of an organ-peal. It is the tone of emotion, excitement, and passion. 2. The orotund has the smoothness of pure tone, but combines it with a much heavier volume of sound. The swelling tones of the orotund are the appropriate means of expressing reverence, awe, sublimity, grandeur, and strong feeling or passion. It prevails in oratorical declamation and in the reading of lyric or dramatic poetry. 3. The prevailing stress of the orotund is the median, changing, however, under excitement, into the radical. 4. In the orotund utterance, the breathing must be full and deep, to insure a good supply of breath; the mouth must be well opened; all the vocal organs must be called into full play; and then, in harmony with strong emotions, the voice swells out like the blast of a bugle or the resonant swell of an organ. 5. The three degrees of the orotund may be distinguished as the effusive, the expulsive, and the explosive. OROTUND DRILL. 1. Repeat, four times, in monotone, the long vocals, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū. 2. Inhale to the utmost capacity of the lungs and then give, with strong swell and round tone, the sound of long o, prolonged as long as the breath will allow. 3. Repeat four times the following vocals : ē, ā, ā, a, ō, o. 4. Lo the mighty sun looks forth! Arm thou leader of the north. 5. Awake! Arise! or be forever fallen! 6. Air, earth, and sea, resound his praise abroad. 7. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. 8. Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness. 1 9. Hail! holy light, offspring of Heaven first-born! 10. Liberty freedom! Tyranny is dead! 11. It thunders! sons of dust, in reverence bow! 12. Hear the mellow wedding bells-golden bells. 13. Hear the loud alarum bells-brazen bells. 14. O thou Eternal One! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide, Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight; Thou only God! There is no God beside! EXAMPLES OF EFFUSIVE OROTUND. 1. THE ARSENAL. This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Áh! what a sound will rise-how wild and dreary- Will mingle with their awful symphonies! I hear even now | the infinite fierce chorus, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, 2. THE OCEAN. LONGFELLOW. The armaments | which thunderstrike the walls | Of lord of thee, and arbiter of wár These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar | Alike the Armada's príde, or spoils of Trafalgàr. 3. HYMN TO MONT BLANC. Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow | Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, BYRON. Who made you glòrious as the gates of heaven | Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sùn | Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?— God let the torrents like a shout of nations | Answer! and let the ice-plains echo: God! God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! 4. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, Leave thy low-vaulted past! COLERIDGE. Let each new tèmple, nobler than the lást, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! 5. FROM THE PSALMS. HOLMES. Praise ye the Lòrd. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his àngels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be abòre the heavens. Let them práise the name of the Lòrd: for he commanded, and they were created. He hath also established them for ever and èver: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all dèeps: fire, and hàil; snóv, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his wòrd: mòuntains, and all hills; fruitful trèes, and all cèdars: béasts, and all cattle; créeping things, and flying fòwl: kings of the earth, and all people: princes, and all judges of the earth both young men and màidens; old mén and children. Let them praise the name of the Lòrd: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. 6. EVE OF ELECTION. Our hearts grow cold, we lightly hold A right which brave men died to gain; The shadow rend, and o'er us bend, O martyrs, with your crowns and palms! Breathe through these throngs, your battle-songs, Your scaffold prayers and dungeon psalms! EXAMPLES OF EXPULSIVE OROTUND. WHITTIER. These examples are to be rendered with a stronger swell than those under the head of effusive orotund. 1. LAUS DEO. It is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun WHITTIER. |