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SPEECH, MUSIC, AND HEARING 255
There are many different shades of expression, as well as of loudness, which we can put into the same words spoken on the same notes. The singer uses a variety of notes as well as a variety of force and colour. Both singers and speakers use a variety of rhythm and speed, yet there is a decided difference between speaking and singing. When we speak we do not use fixed intervals of musical pitch, but slide the voice up and down and keep the voice within the limits of perhaps half an octave or less; but when we sing the voice may range over two octaves or even more. In singing we use only notes with fixed intervals between them, while in speaking we let the voice rest wherever we please.
To people with sensitive ears there is scarcely greater delight than to be surrounded by others with beautiful speaking voices. A person who speaks in a high-pitched, harsh tone, as if he scarcely expected to be heard, indicates to us something about himself and his surroundings. In contrast let us compare the woman who speaks in a rather low-pitched, quier, and musical voice. Her tone would indicate that she is accustomed to live in an atmosphere of refinement. Shakespeare makes King Lear say of his daughter, Cordelia:
Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
There are physicians who, because of the kindliness of their voices, appear more efficient and clever than others who are perhaps more talented physicians. We are therefore accustomed to say that the voice may consist of one of many given pitches and of different shades of colour as well.
The moments spent in reading the foregoing pages, quite apart from the interest of the subject as anatomy or physiology, must have revealed several interesting mat