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ON MELODY IN SPEECH.

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In ordinary conversation the different voices speak in the key of B flat, B, or C, persons with soprano or tenor voices moving in the upper part of the scale, and the alto and bass voices holding to the lower part of the same, and the replies turning often to the dominant or subdominant:

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \override Score.Rest #'style = #'classical \key bes \major \relative f' { \cadenzaOn f4 f8 f bes f f4 r8 bes a bes d4 \bar "||" \break f, r d f d bes \bar "|" f' d8 d g4 \bar "||" d' bes g8 g f4 bes \bar "||" } \addlyrics { How is your friend, to -- day? Is he quite well? Yes, thank you, quite well; and how are you? Thank you, I am quite well. } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key bes \major \relative d'' { \cadenzaOn d8 d c4 f, r8 a a c bes4 g a f \bar "||" \break f8 d f4 f g8 g ees f f d bes4 \bar "||" bes'8 g c4 \bar "||" \break d,2 \bar "|" ees4 g f g g bes \bar "||" d4 r8 bes a bes g g bes4 \bar "||" } \addlyrics { Will you tell me when I could see your mas -- ter? You can see him af -- ter e -- lev -- en o' -- clock. Not be -- fore? No; have you been here be -- fore? Yes; I have been here be -- fore. } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative e' { \cadenzaOn e8 g g g a a f f c'4 \bar "||" \break e c8 g c4 a8 b4 g \bar "||" e8 e a4 a8 f e c c \bar "||" } \addlyrics { Are you not as -- ton -- ished at these news? Yes, and I am de -- light -- ed. As for me, I am hor -- ri -- fied. } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key bes \major \relative f' { \cadenzaOn f4 f8 d g4 g8 ees bes' bes bes f f4 \bar "||" \break c' a f g a8 g a bes c4 r8 a d4 bes a8 f f \bar "|" \break a8 c4 f,8 d'4 bes \bar "||" bes g ees8 ees bes bes d4 \bar "||" } \addlyrics { Where have you been in your sum -- mer hol -- i -- days? I have gone a lit -- tle in -- to France, and then to Ger -- ma -- ny. And where have you been? I stayed qui -- et -- ly at home. } }$