INDEX A DIFFERENT STYLES OR CLASSES. BEFORE attempting to deliver any selection, the student should The editor, in this Index, has endeavored to carefully arrange under The selections have been classified under the following styles. The PATHETIC STYLE is appropriate for the delivery of all selec- II. THE TRANQUIL STYLE. The TRANQUIL STYLE is appropriately used in the delivery of III. THE SERIOUS STYLE. The SERIOUS STYLE may be properly used for the delivery of all serious, grave or solemn selections of a quiet and tranquil spirit. The reader, in its delivery, should use the natural or pure tone in its effusive form, with subdued force, median stress, on a low pitch, and with slow movement of the voice when the ideas are reverential or solemn merely; but when characterized by fear or aversion, as in awe, dread and horror, the aspirated or guttural tone, radical or increasing stress, high pitch with long pauses, may be used with great effect. The Old Man in the Model Church... John H. Yates.... 204 'There is No Death...... .E. Bulwer Lytton. 123 We've Always Been Provided For. ...Anonymous. 435 433 IV. THE SUBLIME STYLE. The SUBLIME STYLE is appropriately used in the delivery of all thoughts and ideas that are noble, great, grand, and heroic, and in the expression of deep feelings of reverence, devotion, adoration, awe, etc. It is the proper voice of all the set services of the church, including nearly all hymns of praise, and it is the appropriate voice of prayer. This style requires full swelling volume, hence the reader should use the orotund quality of voice in its effusive form—with moderate force, median stress, low key and slow rate. In profound awe, despair or horror, a very low key and very slow rate. For the Sublime Oratorical Style see remarks under head of Oratorical. The ORATORICAL STYLE is properly used in the delivery of the very emphatic passages of all declamatory pieces; in the delivery of all set speeches, orations and sermons, in which the object is not only to enlighten the understanding, but to rouse to action, or to quiet the raging passions. It sways with equal ease the minds of the cultured and the ignorant. It is not unusual, especially in all funeral orations, to find a blending of both the sublime and the oratorical elements. Many teachers of elocution separate such pieces from the Oratorical and classify them under the head of the “Oratorical Sublime," inasmuch as this class is almost wholly confined to funeral orations. It has not been thought necessary to make such a classification. In the delivery of the oratorical style both the expulsive and the explosive form of the oratund quality of voice may be used with effect, with a median or increasing force and stress, middle and high key, and moderate movement. A Dream of the Universe... American Independence. American Laborers... Jean Paul Richter .J. Naylor... ..... .434 .293 ..138 |