[EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION.]

The exercises under each chapter have primarily the characteristics of that chapter, and secondarily the characteristics of the other two chapters.

CHAPTER I.

VITALITY.

MIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF Power, Largeness, Freedom, Animation, Movement.

1. "Ho! strike the flag-Staff deep, Sir Knight--ho! scatter flowers, fair
maids:
Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute--ho! gallants, draw your blades."


2. "Awake, Sir King, the gates unspar!
Rise up and ride both fast and far!
The sea flows over bolt and bar."


3. "I would call upon all the true sons of New England to co-operate with the laws of man and the justice of heaven."