Exercises to Improve the
Higher Pitches of Your Voice

Pitch has reference to the key of the voice, and its degrees run through the entire compass. Here are some excerpts for you to practice to improve the higher pitch of your voice:

HIGH

1. Cry Holiday ! Holiday ! let us be gay,
And share in the rapture of heaven and earth; For, see! what a sunshiny joy they display,
To welcome the Spring on the day of her birth; While the elements, gladly outpouring their voice, Nature's psean proclaim, and in chorus rejoice!

2. "Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting; "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door."
Quoth the raven: "Nevermore"
"The Raven" POE.

3. Freedom calls you! Quick, be ready,-
Think of what your sires have done;
Onward, onward! strong and steady,-
Drive the tyrant to his den;
On, and let the watchword be,
Country, home, and liberty!
"Polish War Song." JAMES G. PERCTVAL.

4. I come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
"The Voice of Spring." HEMANS.

5. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
And let the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound!
We in thought will join your throng,
Ye that pipe and ye that play,
Ye that through your hearts to-day
Feel the gladness of the May!
What tho the radiance which was once so bright
Be now forever taken from my sight,
Tho nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering:
In the faith that looks through death,
In the years that bring the philosophic mind.
"Intimations of Immortality." WORDSWORTH.

6. 0 come, let us sing unto Jehovah; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For Jehovah is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are two deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.

The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands formed the dry land. 0 come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

"Ninety-fifth Psalm." THE BIBLE.

VERY HIGH

1. They strike! hurrah! the fort has surrendered! Shout! shout! my warrior boy, And wave your cap, and clap your hands for joy Cheer answer cheer, and bear the cheer about. Hurrah! hurrah! for the fiery fort is ours. "Victory! victory! victory!"
Is the shout.
Shout for the fiery fort is ours, and the field And the day are ours!

2. Rejoice, you men of Algiers , ring your bells:
King John, your king and England 's, doth approach.
Open your gates and give the victors way.
"King John." SHAKESPEARE.

3. Pull, pull in your lassos, and bridle to steed, And speed, if ever for life you would speed; And ride for your lives, for your lives you must ride, For the plain is aflame, the prairie on fire.