How to Speak in Public Author:Grenville Kleiser Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III VOICE CULTURE PURITY To secure purity of voice, no particle of breath must be allowed to escape unvocalized. A persistent effort should be m... more »ade to produce this quality, at first "feeding" the breath very gently to the vocal cords and increasing the volume only after long practise. "He is the best speaker," says Lennox Browne, "who can control the expiration, that the least possible amount of air sufficient to cause vibration is poured with continuous effect upon the vocal organs." 1. Sing oo in gentle, smooth voice, avoiding unnecessary muscular effort. 2. Sing ah, with mouth well opened, aiming at purity, depth and smoothness. Sustain and repeat on various pitches. 3. Repeat with o. 4. Gradually change singing o to ah, maintaining a uniform quality throughout. 5. Repeat with oo-o-ah. 6. Practise various musical scales, 7. Pronounce e, a, aw, ah, o, oo, prolonging each ten or more seconds. 8. Repeat with rising, falling, and circumflex inflection. 9. Practise shock of the glottis in gup, ge, ga, gaw, gah, go, goo. 10. Eepeat in hup, he, ha, haw, hah, ho, hoo. 11. Kepeat with rising slide and with falling slide, aim- ing at great clearness. 12. Count very deliberately one to fifty, inhaling after each number. 13. Count to fifty, ten to each breath. 14. Repeat last two exercises in loud whisper. 15. Project by slight waves of sound woo-woo-woo-woo. 16. Toss the sounds e, a, aw, ah, oh, oo. 17. With mouth closed hum a mental maw. The vibration should be felt on the lips and in the facial resonators. 18. Repeat with bright and with sad vibrations. 19. Repeat in very low pitch. 20. Commence a humming tone as before, allow the lower jaw to drop gently, "focus" the voice on the lips and maintain as much faci...« less