Like all other elements of utterance, it must be practiced judiciously or the effect will be injurious rather than beneficial. Like Pure Tone, Orotund, and Oral, it has its Effusive, Expulsive, and Explosive Forms. To acquire control of this quality, practice in a whispered tone the elements, words, and sentences in which the element h predominates. Contrasting Aspirate and Pure Tone, Effusive Form. Repeat the above sounds, words, and sentences with 1. Effusive Aspirate. 2. Effusive Pure Tone. Aspirate, EFFUSIVE FORM-When Used. The Aspirate in the Effusive Form is the quality appropriate for the expression of quietness, secret thought, suppressed fear, and profound repose. EXAMPLE: QUIETNESS. Aspirate, Effusive Form. Parting Words. MRS. HEMANS. "One struggle more, and I am free."-BYRON, Leave me! O, leave me! Unto all below Thy presence binds me with too deep a spell; Leave me! thy footstep with its lightest sound, Too strong, for aught that lives and dies to bear; I hear thy whisper-and the warm tears gush The past looks on me from thy mournful eyes, Shut out the sunshine from my dying room, Doth our own spring make happy music now, Alas! vain thoughts! that fondly thus can stray If I could but draw courage from the light Leave me!-thou com'st between my heart and Heaven; QUESTIONS. 1. What Quality is presented in this lesson? 2. Define the Aspirate Quality. 3. To which class does it belong? 4. What styles of thought and feeling can be expressed only with the Aspirate Quality? 5. What is the effect of the Aspirate when blended with the Orotund? 6. In what Forms may it be given ? 7. When is the Aspirate, Effusive Form, appropriately employed? 8. Why does the selection require Aspirate Effusive. 1. That will be justice. 2. What will satisfy you? 3. Add to your faith, virtue. 4. The scaffold has no terrors for me. ASPIRATE EXPULSIVE. The quality is the same as in the last lesson, but the form is changed to Expulsive. 1. Tread softly, bow the head! 2. Soldier, advance quietly, but quickly. EXERCISES Contrasting Pure Tone and Aspirate, Effusive and Expulsive Forms. Repeat the foregoing sounds, words, and sentences with 1. Effusive Pure Tone. 2. Expulsive Aspirate. 4. Expulsive Pure Tone. ASPIRATE, EXPULSIVE FORM-WHEN USED. The Aspirate in the Expulsive Form is the quality appropriate for the expression of suppressed command, sudden fear, alarm, and terror. Combined with the Orotund, it gives intensity to awe, horror, and dread. EXAMPLE: SUPPRESSED COMMAND. Aspirate, Expulsive Form. Military Command. ANON. Soldiers, you are now within a few steps of the enemy's outposts! Our scouts report them as slumbering in parties around their watchfires, and utterly unprepared for our approach. A swift and noiseless advance around that projecting rock, and we are upon them -we capture them without the possibility of resistance. One disorderly noise or motion may leave us at the mercy of their advanced guard. Let every man keep the strictest silence under the pain of instant death. QUESTIONS. 1. Define the Aspirate Expulsive. 2. When is it used? 3. Give an example from nature. 4. Why does the selection require Aspirate Expulsive? 5. With what qualities may the Aspirate be combined? |