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Voice: Expression

Voice: Expression. Besides speaking loudly and clearly on stage, one must speak with expression. Factors in Speaking w/Expression. Pitch Volume Quality Phrasing Tempo. Pitch. How high or low your voice is Basic emotional responses are normally associated with certain pitch levels

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Voice: Expression

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  1. Voice: Expression Besides speaking loudly and clearly on stage, one must speak with expression.

  2. Factors in Speaking w/Expression • Pitch • Volume • Quality • Phrasing • Tempo

  3. Pitch • How high or low your voice is • Basic emotional responses are normally associated with certain pitch levels • Low pitch=generally associated with deep emotional states (awe, sorrow, sincerity) • High pitch= heightened emotional state (fear, terror, anger, rage, excitement, hysteria)

  4. Pitch • Use inflection in pitch to change meaning • Really = question • Really = boredom, statement of understanding Exercise: A: Tom fell down and injured his leg B: Oh

  5. Volume • How loud or soft your voice is • How could volume be a factor in expression?

  6. Quality • Whether your voice is shrill, nasal, raspy, breathy, booming, etc.

  7. Phrasing • How to divide your speeches into smaller parts, adding pauses to create emphasis and a rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences

  8. Tempo • How fast of slowly you speak • Remember that stage speech requires a much slower rate than that used in everyday conversation

  9. Tempo (cont.) • Things to consider • The role: rate of speech often suggests certain character traits or temperament (young, excitable = faster tempo) • Type of play: comedy or farce usually a faster tempo than a melodrama or tragedy • Purpose of the dialogue – content will suggest rate: trivial material faster rate; important content decrease rate

  10. Tempo • Exercise: Using the monologue from Death of a Salesman, decide where to change the tempo and why. Mark this on your copy.

  11. Inflection • Means to use variety in speech • Inflections creates/changes meaning or emotional content • Exercise: read w/emotional overtones given to you “I want to go to the party with Jim Saturday night.”

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