Post by leeknight on Nov 7, 2012 9:59:45 GMT -5
LCK/Lee has been going on about this and keeping us all honest for a while now.
And since we're on a bit of a Pattison kick... Pattison's insights into Prosody are really unique and thought provoking. But first, a dictionary definition:
Prosody - (1) In phonetics, the use of pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm in speech to convey information about the structure and meaning of an utterance. Adjective: prosodic.
(2) In literary studies, the theory and principles of versification, especially as they refer to rhythm, accent, and stanza.
But Pattison's take on the subject, as he explains inside, in more Aristotle's concept of unity in art. That all elements of a work have unity of purpose.
This interview is really quite provocative in its ideas. But I am all ears. This really opens up my head to look at things in a realistic and surprisingly intuitive way.
Find 30 minutes an watch this. It really is insightful. Below the video are some of my notes to help me encapsulate the ideas. It helps me, it might you...
NOTES TAKEN BY ME WHILE WATCHING THE VIDEO:
7% of our communication is the actual words I say
35% is my tone of voice (tone includes “pitch”)
The rest of it is body language.
People whine and tease in minor 3rds. NAna-NAna
We establish a “tonic” in our speech. A base line.
The tonic is established by grammatical functions. By my personal pronouns… by articles like: the, a, and… my propositions: at, on, in, to, for… and by my conjunctions. By my grammatical functions. They set the tonality. And then…
Every time we stress a syllable in language we raise the pitch of our voice: UnderSTAND? It’s REALly great to see you. (leap of a 3rd,) It’s REALly great to see you. (for greater emphasis, a 5th) So speaking is arpeggiating my tonic with stress syllables.
We’re not talking about melody here, we’re talking about harmonic function. Root, 3rd, 5th, etc. Whine in minor 3rd, and tritone actually, root, minor 3rd and flatted 5th. Ask questions in a 5th. Happy in major 3rd. We threaten on the dominant function below the tonic: Don’t you talk to me like that!
Pattison's ideas on the subdominant, the 4th... are very interesting.
And since we're on a bit of a Pattison kick... Pattison's insights into Prosody are really unique and thought provoking. But first, a dictionary definition:
Prosody - (1) In phonetics, the use of pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm in speech to convey information about the structure and meaning of an utterance. Adjective: prosodic.
(2) In literary studies, the theory and principles of versification, especially as they refer to rhythm, accent, and stanza.
But Pattison's take on the subject, as he explains inside, in more Aristotle's concept of unity in art. That all elements of a work have unity of purpose.
This interview is really quite provocative in its ideas. But I am all ears. This really opens up my head to look at things in a realistic and surprisingly intuitive way.
Find 30 minutes an watch this. It really is insightful. Below the video are some of my notes to help me encapsulate the ideas. It helps me, it might you...
NOTES TAKEN BY ME WHILE WATCHING THE VIDEO:
7% of our communication is the actual words I say
35% is my tone of voice (tone includes “pitch”)
The rest of it is body language.
People whine and tease in minor 3rds. NAna-NAna
We establish a “tonic” in our speech. A base line.
The tonic is established by grammatical functions. By my personal pronouns… by articles like: the, a, and… my propositions: at, on, in, to, for… and by my conjunctions. By my grammatical functions. They set the tonality. And then…
Every time we stress a syllable in language we raise the pitch of our voice: UnderSTAND? It’s REALly great to see you. (leap of a 3rd,) It’s REALly great to see you. (for greater emphasis, a 5th) So speaking is arpeggiating my tonic with stress syllables.
We’re not talking about melody here, we’re talking about harmonic function. Root, 3rd, 5th, etc. Whine in minor 3rd, and tritone actually, root, minor 3rd and flatted 5th. Ask questions in a 5th. Happy in major 3rd. We threaten on the dominant function below the tonic: Don’t you talk to me like that!
Pattison's ideas on the subdominant, the 4th... are very interesting.
