om and Jim sat on a log_")
be read, first in that monotonous voice (that is, with unvarying radical
pitch) so often heard in the labored reading of improperly taught young
children, and then with those appropriate intonations heard in animated
colloquy. When properly rendered, even if read with but little
animation, each syllable, or concrete, passes through an interval of a
second, and the several syllables are discretely uttered; but the
_radical pitch varies from syllable to syllable_, forming a diatonic
melody. _For the rendering of any given sentence in appropriate diatonic
melody, positive direction as to the order of succession in respect of
radical pitch cannot be given_; the same words may be uttered with equal
appropriateness in many varieties of melody. The ignoring of this fact
has led to the most absurd pretensions.

A group of two or three syllabic concretes is called a =phrase of
melody=; and as phrases vary with respect to pitch, in the order of
succession of the radicals of their constituent syllables, they receive
different names: such as the _monotone_, in which the radicals are all
on the same pitch; and the _ditone_ and the _tritone_, groups of two
tones and three tones respectively, with radicals of different pitch;
and, again, the concretes in these phrases may have upward or downward
intonations: but fixed rules cannot be laid down for their use. The
reader must bear in mind, however, that it is upon the tasteful use of
phrases and cadences, that is, upon the tasteful employment of
variation in radical pitch, that the melody of uttered language depends;
and that if it be devoid of this melody, it is both wearisome and
unimpressive to the hearer.

The intonations of the voice must necessarily be through either rising
intervals or falling intervals, and there is a generic difference in the
meaning of these. =The rising interval= is heard naturally at the end of
a direct question; that is, one to which "_yes_" or "_no_" is an
expected answer, as "_Are you going home?_" The suspensive tone which
the voice assumes at the end of the interrogation is indicative of
incompleteness of thought; and _indication of incompleteness is the
characteristic function of all rising intervals_.

=The falling interval= is heard naturally at the close of a complete
statement, as "_I am here_"; and hence, _words indicating completeness,
positiveness, resolution, are appropriately uttered with downward
intervals_. In e