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Flat singing is often due to bad ventilation of the room, more often still to boredom. A good plan in this case is to raise the pitch a semitone; it is often just as easy for singing, and invariably produces a sense of cheerfulness. Children should never be allowed to sing loudly, especially when very young. It is most difficult to cure the habit when once formed.
"Ich schlief, ich schlief, Aus tiefem Schlaf bin ich erwacht: Die Welt ist tief, Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht." the last phrase of which was repeated by the accompaniment, a semitone higher. Tief ist ihr Weh, Lust tiefer noch als Herzeleid: As far as this, the voice had been supported by simple, full-sounding harmonies.
Then steps in this scale which come near to the great salient points that is, the points of greatest consonance, which is unity, which is rest are felt as suggesting them. This is the reason why a semitone progression is felt as so compelling.
In the final mad scene Pasta rallied into something like her former grandeur of acting; and in the last song with its roulades and its scales of shakes ascending by a semitone, this consummate vocalist and tragedienne, able to combine form with meaning dramatic grasp and insight with such musical display as enter into the lyric art was indicated at least to the apprehension of the younger artist.
Thus, parhypate, which in the enharmonic is at the interval of half a semitone from hypate, has a semitone interval when transferred to the chromatic. What is called lichanos in the enharmonic is at the interval of a semitone from hypate; but when shifted to the chromatic, it goes two semitones away; and in the diatonic it is at an interval of three semitones from hypate.
"The fellow's a swindler!" cried The Other Man in an angry semitone. But that's all very well. "No have got nothing!" Ah, there lay the secret. Presently The Other Man, head of the general commissariat, spoke again with touching eloquence.
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