Exercises to Improve the Guttural and Falsetto Qualities of Your Voice

Guttural is used in language of revenge, anger, horror, aversion. Falsetto is employed in imitating the voices of children, women, old age, etc.

Here are some excerpts for you to practice:

GUTTURAL

1. But you, wretch! You could creep through the world unaffected by its various disgraces, its ineffable miseries, its constantly
accumulating masses of crime and sorrow;-you could live and
enjoy yourself while the noble-minded were betrayed,-while
nameless and birthless villains trod on the neck of the brave and
long-descended:-you could enjoy yourself, like a butcher's dog
in the shambles, battening on garbage, while the slaughter of the
brave went on around you! This enjoyment you shall not live
to partake of: you shall die, base dog!-and that before yon
eloud has passed over the sun!
SCOTT.

2. But now my sword's my own! Smile on, my lords! I scorn to count what feelings, withered hopes, Strong provocations, bitter, burning wrongs, I have within my heart's hot cells shut up, To leave you in your lazy dignities. But here I stand and scoff you! here I fling Hatred and full defiance in your face! Your Consul's merciful;-for this all thanks. He dares not touch a hair of Catiline!

"Catiline's Defiance " GEORGE CROLY.

3. Gloster. Stay you that bear the corse and set it down. Anne. What black magician conjures up this fiend, To stop devoted charitable deeds? Gloster. Villains, set down the corse; or by Saint Paul , I'll make a corse of him that disobeys! Gentleman. My lord, stand back and let the coffin pass. Gloster. Unmannered dog! stand thou when I command: Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, Or, by Saint Paul , I'll strike thee to my foot, And spurn upon thee beggar, for thy boldness.
"Richard III." SHAKESPEARE.

4. I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
I'll have my bond! and therefore speak no more.
I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,
To shake the head, relent, and sigh; and yield
To Christian intercessors. Follow not;
I'll have no speaking. I will have my bond.
"Merchant of Venice .' SHAKESPEARE.

5. Antony . Villains! you did not so, when your vile daggers
Hacked one another in the sides of Caesar!
You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds,
And bowed like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet;
Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind,
Struck Caesar on the neck.-0 you flatterers!
"Julius Caesar." SHAKESPEARE.

FALSETTO

1. There was silence for a little while; then an old man replied in a thin, trembling voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why he's been dead and gone these eighteen years."
"Rip Van Winkle." WASHINGTON IRVING .

2. Yes, it is worth talking of: But that's how you always try to put me down. You fly into a rage, and then, if I only try to speak, you won't hear me. That's how you men always will have the talk to yourselves: a poor woman isn't allowed to get a word in.
"The Caudle Lectures." DOUGLAS JERROLD.

3. "No," said the wife; "the barn is high, And if you slip, and fall, and die How will my living be secured? Stephen, your life is not insured."