:--To Develop the Whimsical Sense.

DISCUSSION:--Humor and Fancy.

MATERIAL:--Fairy Story, Fable, and Nonsense
Rhyme, with Suggestive Analysis.

SELECTIONS FOR INTERPRETATION.

FOURTH STUDY:--To Develop 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:--Impersonation and Characterization.

MATERIAL:--Monologue and Play, with Suggestive
Analysis.

SELECTIONS FOR INTERPRETATION.

PART II

STUDIES IN VOCAL EXPRESSION

INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION:--The Vocal Vocabulary.

STUDY IN PAUSE AND CHANGE OF PITCH.

STUDY IN INFLECTION.

STUDY IN TONE COLOR.

PART III

STUDIES IN VOCAL TECHNIQUE

INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION:--Tuning the Instrument.

HOW TO SUPPORT THE TONE.
Directions and Exercises.

HOW TO FREE THE TONE.
Directions and Exercises.

HOW TO RE-ENFORCE THE TONE.
Directions and Exercises.

TO THE PUPIL

Let me trace the evolution which has led to the plan of this text-book.
A class in elocution of which you are a member is given a paragraph from
_Modern Eloquence_, a bit from an oration or address of Beecher or
Phillips or Beveridge, to study. The passage appeals to you. You are
roused by it to an eager, new appreciation of courage, conservatism or
of the character of some national hero. You "look" your interest. You
are asked to go to the platform. You are glad. You want to repeat the
inspired word of the prophet. You begin confidently to voice the words
of the great orator--the words which you had lifted alive from the
page--but in your voice they sound now formal, cold, lifeless. You
hesitate, your emotion is killed, your thought inhibited, your eagerness
gone, your impulse dead--but you have made a discovery. You have become
conscious of a great need, and your teacher, if she be wise, has
discovered the nature of that need. You consult together and find three
things have failed you, and, through you, the orator you wished to
interpret. These things are your mind, your vocabulary, and your voice.
You find that your need is threefold--it is the need to feel
intelligently and to think vitally _on your feet_; the need to acquire a
vocal vocabulary; the need to train your instruments of
expression--voice and body.

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