Do Now: • Take a deep breath in and begin speaking to

your partner on whatever topic you choose until you run out of breath. It could be what is front of you in the room, or out the window, what you had for breakfast...anything. Remain on the SAME note all the time. When you have finished, have your partner choose another note. It could be higher or lower and repeat. Pay careful attention to the effect it has on you! Notice the difference when you pitch your voice higher and then lower. You should feel a physical difference as well as an emotional one.

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• Pitch--determined by frequency; the “key” or range of your voice

• Inflection--change of pitch• Inflection range--spectrum of pitch

change• Melody--sequence of pitches • Monotone—lacks inflection• Tone--the emotional content carried by

our voices. It is not the words themselves, but 'how' we say them.

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• I am the very pattern of a modern Major-General;I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,I understand equations, both simple and quadratical,About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,I know the scientific names of beings animalculous,In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• Say the sentences below in your high, Say the sentences below in your high, middle and low pitch range. Note what middle and low pitch range. Note what happens to the intensity and the way happens to the intensity and the way you perceive the emotional content of you perceive the emotional content of the sentences. There will be a distinct the sentences. There will be a distinct variation between each.variation between each.

• Her Grandmother died yesterday.Her Grandmother died yesterday.• I want a new car.I want a new car.• This dinner is delicious.This dinner is delicious.• People should love their neighbors as People should love their neighbors as

themselves.themselves.

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• Tone—the emotional quality of the voice

• Take an emotional state and build a whole conversation around the phrase 'Ham Sandwich'.

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• Repeat the words 'Ham Sandwich' in as many varying ways as you can. For example say it angrily, happily, sadly, lovingly, despairingly, laughingly, importantly, slyly, snidely, shyly... This is a fantastic exercise to share with a partner. Take turn about giving each other the way to say the phrase. Repeat until you run out of variations. NB. Listen for emotional truth or believability!

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• 'I am the very pattern of a modern Major-General;I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,I understand equations, both simple and quadratical,About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,I know the scientific names of beings animalculous,In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,I am the very model of a modern Major-General.'

How do you manipulate the pitch and tone to develop vocal variety in your delivery?

• The goal for every speaker is: The goal for every speaker is:

• to find the most to find the most appropriate expression appropriate expression to meet the audience's needsto meet the audience's needs

• to to matchmatch those needs those needs with the content with the content of the speech.of the speech.

• to have a to have a rangerange of vocal varieties to of vocal varieties to select the most appropriate from. This select the most appropriate from. This gives you flexibility.gives you flexibility.