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CONCEPTS OF DICTION. |
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speech. Consequently, inferences from the speaking voice cannot be directly applied to the singing voice." The following resume" provides a further reminder that song and speech values are not readily interchangeable. (See also Chapter II)
Characteristics that distinguish the diction of singing
1. The vocal pitch range of the singing voice exceeds the average pitch range of the speaking voice by from one to two octaves. (Chapter VI)
2. Resonance and projection factors are far more important and more conspicuous than in the speaking voice.
$. Musical and aesthetic requirements of singing are much more exacting than in speaking, sometimes requiring a subordination of intelligibility to tone production.
4. Singing employs more stylized, sustained, dramatic, declamatory and intensified forms of expression than speech, with greater emphasis laid upon emotional and aesthetic factors than upon the intellectual content of the words.
5. Individual vocal (vowel) tones are sustained on definite pitches.
6. Pitch intervals between various vocal tones are easily discernible.
7. Individual vocal (vowel) tones have a prescribed duration or time value.
8. Musical factors such as staccato, legato, attack, rests and phrasing are featured elements in the expression of song.
9. Dynamic or intensity values of all vocal tones and combinations of tones are prescribed by the musical pattern.
10. Measured swelling and diminishing effects are often used.
n. The duration of vocal tones conforms to a definite rhythmic pattern.
12. Vocal tones move deliberately through pitch intervals that conform to a prescribed melodic pattern.
13. Pauses have definite rhythmic values, even at cadences and endings.
Further generalizations that are derived from the foregoing theoretical discussions are as follows:
1. Diction (in singing) is the adaptation of the art of verbal communication to the language of song. |
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