Jed Wentz - American Musicological Society
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Jed Wentz - American Musicological Society
Introduction Two remarkable systems of notation that facilitated the preservation of theatrical performance—one for gesture, the other for the voice—were invented by anglophone writers in the second half of the 18th century: in Dublin, the Reverend Gilbert Austin came up with the idea of using the letters of the alphabet to indicate the placement of an actor’s body in space; and London-based Joshua Steele used an expanded musical notation to capture the sliding intonations of theatrical declamation. The efforts of these men show some remarkable similarities. Both published books about their notational systems in London: Steele brought out An essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech, to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar symbols in 1775, and updated it as Prosodia rationalis in 1779, while Austin published his Chironomia in 1806.1 Furthermore, both men attempted to justify their work by pointing to precedents from the Classical past, and indeed, their books are liberally bedewed with quotations in Greek and Latin. Both men made a case for the beneficial consequences of their inventions for future generations: Austin, for instance, preserved, by means of his notation, highlights from the performances of Mrs. Siddons, while Steele notated part of Hamlet’s soliloquy as declaimed by David Garrick. Thus, they both felt that their systems enabled the conservation—of individual interpretations, of characteristic masterstrokes—of the most magical moments of the fleeting theatrical art. It is tempting to see both Austin’s and Steele’s systems as synchronous expressions of Neo-Classical British Enlightenment thought imposed onto things theatrical. However, stimuli and precedents for both notations were to be found earlier in the 18th-century, in France; and both Austin and Steele could have easily been aware of these earlier French discussions. For example, Chironomia mentions the discussion of gestural notation that is contained in Dubos’ Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture.2 It was through Dubos’ work that Austin also heard of the system of dance notation that had been published by Raoul Auger Feuillet (Chorégraphie: 1700), though Austin admits that he has not seen the notation itself.3 Steele, too, could easily have known (through the 1756 translation by Thomas Nugent if not through the original) of the discussions of notational systems for declamation contained in Dubos’ Réflexions. My AMS presentation has a specific and rather limited goal: it examines Steele’s notational system, taken from the second edition of his work entitled Prosodia rationalis, as a source for the reconstruction of 18th-century English theatrical 1 Internal evidence in Chironomia suggests that Austin had begun working on his system by the 1780s. 2 Abbé Dubos, Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture. (Paris: 1719). 3 Raoul Auger Feuillet, Chorégraphie (Paris:1700). declamation. It is clear that Steele’s work cries out for a more complete examination and a richer contextualization than will be offered here.4 However, the needs of the performer, and the possible insights that reconstruction can offer to thespians and scholars alike, must here take precedence, skewing my inquiry towards how Steele’s examples actually sounded, particularly their tempo, rhythm and pitch. This presentation will be illustrated (visually and aurally) by computer realizations of Steele’s notations created by the young Greek composer Panos Iliopoulos. I asked Mr. Iliopoulos to help me in my reconstruction of ‘To be, or not to be’; in the course of preparing the realizations he became interested enough in Steele’s work to use it as the basis for a new composition. His remarks are appended to this paper. Prosodia rationalis and its author Steele’s date and place of birth are unknown; Larry Gragg, in his article on Steele in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that Steele lived from c. 1700 to 1796. Steele obtained, through marriage, a ‘substantial plantation on the Caribbean colony of Barbados.’5 He is currently best-known in his role as social reformer and advocate for the better treatment of slaves. He also published (in 1775, the same year as his An essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech, to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar symbols) two short articles of ethnomusicological and organological interest: ‘Account of a Musical Instrument, Which Was Brought by Captain Fourneaux from the Isle of Amsterdam in the South Seas to London in the Year 1774, and Given to the Royal Society’ and ‘Remarks on a Larger System of Reed Pipes from the Isle of Amsterdam, with Some Observations on the Nose Flute of Otaheite’.6 Of Steele’s musical background little can be said: he makes clear, in the abovementioned articles on the exotic flutes, that he was, at any rate, no expert flute-player. He mentions the bass viol and violoncello in Prosodia rationalis as being suitable instruments for experimenting with his notation (the tessitura of which instruments indicates that he was imagining a male audience for his writings)7 . It is, however, clear that he understood the standard musical notation system well enough to be able to adapt it to his purposes of notating microtonal glissandi. Indeed, one contemporary 4 For a look at Steele’s work in a historical and linguistic context, see: Amit Yahav, ‘The Sense of Rhythm: Nationalism, Sympathy and the English Elocutionists’, The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 52, 2, Spring 2011, 173-192. 5 See the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 6 See: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 65 (1775), 67-71 and 72-78. Both articles are currently available on JSTOR. Steele is briefly mentioned in David R. M. Irving’s ‘Comparative organography in early modern empires’, see: Music & Letters, Vol. 90, no. 3 (2009). 7 Although he fervently wishes, on page xvii, ‘[…] that the system proposed in this Essay may be patronized by the ladies’, so that they may pass it on to their offspring in the nursery. critic of Steele’s work felt that it demanded too much musical knowledge from its readers: The attempt is undoubtedly laudable, but no farther useful than to show the impossibility of it by the very method he has taken to explain it; for it is wrapped up in such an impenetrable cloud of music as to be unintelligible to any but musicians […].8 Steele, of course, was himself aware of this drawback to his method. He opend part one of Prosodia by stating that: We suppose the reader to have some knowledge of the modern scale and notation of music, namely the chromatico-diatonic; which may defined practically, as, A series of sounds moving distinctly from grave to acute, or vice versâ (either gradually or saltim)9 by intervals, of which the semitone (commonly so called) may be the common measure or divisor, without a fraction, and always dwelling, for a perceptible space and time, on one certain tone. Whereas the melody of speech moves rapidly up or down by slides, wherein no graduated distinction of tones or semitones can be measured by the ear […].10 The form in which Steele’s Prosodia rationalis is presented to the public is far from well-wrought, and its relationship to the earlier An essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech is complex. It is beyond the scope of this paper to compare of the two books beyond saying that the former is an ‘amended and enlarged’ version of the latter: An essay contains 193 pages of text; the Prosodia 237.11 I will, however, now attempt briefly to sketch the later book’s content and form. Prosodia rationalis does not have a table of contents, and its structure is chaotic. The introductory section alone contains a dedication to Steele’s supporter in the quarrel, Sir John Pringle, an extensive preface (with advice as to the pronunciation of English vowels), and an essay entitled ‘The mesure and melody of speech’. Hereafter begins Part I which also contains an essay, this time entitled ‘A method of delineating notes or 8 John Walker, A key to the Classical pronunciation of Greek and Latin proper names (London: 1798), 138. 9 i.e. either by stepwise motion, or by means of ‘jumps’. 10 Steele, Prosodia rationalis (London: 1779(, 4. 11 These numbers exclude the indices. characters to represent the melody and quantity of the slides made by the voice in common speech’, in which Steele’s microtonal notation is explained. Part II further develops the themes laid out in Part I. It contains many pages of examples of English prose and verse notated according to Steele’s system (including the famous soliloquy from Hamlet). It also contains an essay (critical of Steele’s work) by Lord Monboddo entitled ‘Observations and queries’ , followed by a letter of rebuttal, dated 1775, written by Steele and addressed to Lord Monboddo. All of this brings us only to page 65 of the book; and so it goes on to the end, with excerpts from, and commentary upon, Monboddo’s book Of the origin and progress of language,12 as well as letters, rebuttals and copious illustrations of Steele’s system applied to texts in Latin, Greek and English and taken from the works, among others, of Virgil, Homer, Milton and Pope. The book’s polemical origins help to explain its chaotic form: Steele invented his notation specifically to refute statements made by Lord Monboddo in Of the origin and progress of language. In volume II of that work, Monboddo denied that English pronunciation involved any inflection of pitch. This statement inspired Steel to prove the contrary by notating spoken English as a series of microtonal glissandi, or ‘slides’. Steele’s opposition to Monboddo sparked debate, resulting in letters that in their turn resulted in further exegesis.13 The clergyman Robert Nares gave a succinct description of the entire controversy in a footnote to his Elements of Orthoepy, saying of Lord Monboddo: […] he treats this subject very fully, and compares the English accent very aptly to the pulsation of a drum [ed. - that is to say, purely rhythmic rather than melodic]. I find that his system has since been controverted; and it has even been said that he has retracted some of his opinions on this subject. I looked into the book which supports the contrary doctrine, but without being convinced. In truth, I found myself utterly unable to follow the ingenious author through his wonderfully acute distinctions, though my ear is not wholly unpractised in the discrimination of musical effects. I should fear that his system is too obscure to be of general service, even if right.14 The parry and thrust of this polemical skirmish will not be delineated here. Indeed, I have merely raised the point in order to embed Steele’s arguments in their 12 James Burnett (Lord Monboddo), Of the origin and progress of language, six volumes (London: 1773-1792). 13 I, unfortunately, cannot corroborate Steele’s claim (made on page viii of the Prosodia) that ‘[…] these altogether, though in this scattered manner (and incumbered with some repetitions) may be more clear and satisfactory to an inquiring reader, than if they were polishes into a more formal system.’ 14 Robert Nares, Elements of Orthoepy (London: 1784), 144-5. (predominately Classical) context. For Monboddo was attempting to compare uninflected English to the inflections of Classical Greek. Steele refuted this standpoint, and went even further, claiming that since English, too, was an inflected language, its recitation would benefit from the use of an instrumental drone, like those that had been used to accompany the actors in the ancient Greek theatre. That is why he proposed that Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be or not to be’ should be accompanied by a drone, of which he noted that: whether a stringed instrument with a bow, or wind instruments, such as very deep flutes or French horns, will have the best effect, must be proved by future experiments.15 A few points about Steele’s notations The full workings of Steele’s notational system will be elucidated during the roundtable presentation; its basic premises are explained in the appended text by Panos Iliopoulos. I therefore will only make a few further points here. Although Steele’s notation offers possibilities for precise and subtle notation of speech, very few of the examples in his book actually make full use of the system. It seems that it was too labor intensive to draw in all of the addition staff lines needed to notate the microtonal slides with accuracy. At any rate, Steele felt that pitch levels were but one of many factors involved in speech, and perhaps not even the most important to comprehension. This led Steele to drop his expanded musical staff (and consequent precision in notating quarter tones) when notating speech according to his system: Though I have given a scale, in my first part, in order to demonstrate with accuracy, the nature and extent of the slides we make in speech, yet with a little practice I found, that drawing my slides on the common five black lines was sufficient (at least for a person who is already a musician and master of the language) to direct the voice to the proper tones; for there is a great latitude which may be used without any seeming blemish; as whether the slide runs a quarter of a tone or three quarters, up and down, more or less, seems of little consequence, provided the proprieties of (the RHYTHMUS) quantity and cadence, are duly observed.16 Steele realized that speech intonations were flexible to a degree that rendered such precision of notation pedantic. He backtracked from the idea of complete accuracy on page 13 of his book: 15 Steele, Prosodia rationalis, 37. 16 Steele, Prosodia rationalis, 30. An explanation of this terminology will form part of my presentation. In an attempt so new in our age, as the reducing common speech to regular notes, it will not be expected that this first essay should be extremely accurate; for there is a great latitude in the slides not only of different speakers, but also of the same speaker at different times. People who play by ear on instruments of music, as well as those who play by notes, can seldom play their voluntaries a second time without great variation. Now all people, orators of pulpit, bar, and stage, in respect of the melody and rhythmus of language, are but as players of voluntaries exhibiting by ear, having no notes as a test or standard to prove their correctness, and to measure the degrees of their excellence.17 Steele’s nonchalance in notating many of his examples, including Hamlet’s soliloquy, may make perfect sense within the context of Prosodia rationalis, but it is a great frustration for anyone attempting to reconstruct 18th-century declamation using his book as a guide. In New Orleans, I will present parts of his ‘To be or not to be’, of which he gives three different versions. The first is the longest, and encompasses the entire text from the words ‘To be! or not to be?’ to ‘Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered’. This notated version was not, according to Steele, meant to record any specific performance by an actor, but rather his own interpretation: I shall set it down as I pronounced it, the first lines accented and fully noted, the remainder with all the other marks of expression, but without accents.18 Thus, in this first, complete version of the speech, Steele only fully notates Shakespeare’s text up to the words ‘To die, to sleep’. The remainder is notated in a simplified manner, without any recourse to a musical staff. The tone proposed for the drone is indicated at the very beginning; Steele states of Shakespeare’s text that: […] it was one of those which I made my experiment upon with the bass accompaniment.19 Having notated the entire speech, Steele then gives an alternate, and very different, reading for the passage ‘To die, to sleep’, once again resorting to the more precise form 17 Steele, Prosodia rationalis, 13-4. 18 Steele, Prosodia rationalis, 39-40. 19 Steele. Prosodia rationalis, 39. of his notation, that making use of a musical staff (though without tyhe extra lines for the microtones). Finally, the piece de résistance: Since writing the foregoing treatise, I have heard Mr. Garrick in the character of Hamlet; and the principal differences that I can remember, between his manner, and what I have marked in the treatise, are as follows:20 Steele, in order to demonstrate these differences in performance style, then notates three short excerpts of Hamlet’s soliloquy in a simplified notation, as pronounced by the most famous English actor of the age. Disappointments Such detailed ‘recordings’ of even a few words as spoken by Garrick are precious to the theatre scholar. Despite such treasure, however, a disappointment awaits the theatrical researcher: Steele’s silence on the matter of (what the French called) the ‘tons’, being the pitch levels associated with the oratorical expression of the passions.21 A number of French sources make clear that such links between specific emotion and specific pitch levels was, at any rate, common practice amongst French orators (both clergy and thespians), while Hogarth’s print satirizing religious enthusiasm entitled Credulity, superstition and fanaticism (1762) seems to indicate that the English clergy knew the practice as well.22 [see figure 1] To give a brief description: orators in church and on the French stage made clever rhetorical use of small-scale inflections (what Steele would call the ‘melody’) centred around a basic pitch or ‘ton’. The greater the emotion, the higher this basic pitch. The result was a sliding scale of emotionally charged ‘tons’., around which the melody of speech-inflection swirled. The normal range of basic pitches for the orator encompassed anything from the 5th to the octave, depending on the venue (preachers generally had a more limited range of ‘tons’ than, for instance, actors): in Hogarth’s satirical print, however, this ‘scale of vociferation’ extends well beyond the octave, to end in the ‘Bull Roar’ of ‘Blood Blood Blood Blood’. 20 Steele, Prosodia rationalis, 47. This passage is both in An Essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech, and in Prosodia rationalis. 21 For an extensive examination of the relationship between ‘tons’ and French opera see: Jed Wentz, ‘An Annotated Livret of Lully’s Roland as a Source for 17th-Century Declamation’, Cambridge Opera Journal, 25/1 (forthcoming). 22 Andrew Comstock’s later oratorical treatise A system of elocution (Philidelphia: 1841) discusses the relationship between pitch and melody in Englsih in a most comprehensive way; see pages 38-59. Comstock made use of Steele’s notational system in two books of his own: Practical elocution (1830) and The rhythmical reader (1832). Conclusion Steele’s ambiguity on the point of the ‘tons’—does his reference to the oratorical range of a fifth as mentioned in the works of Denis of Halicarnassus refer to fleeting inflections (‘melody’) or pitch centres (‘tons’)?— is disappointing to the modern researcher, and his nonchalance in notation is a source of much scholarly gnashing of teeth. Indeed, it is worth mentioning that a maddening lack of rigour when employing the notational systems they developed was shared by Gilbert Austin and Steele. Austin too, used his system less accurately than he could have, and he even apologized to his readers for notating his oratorical gestures too copiously and precisely in Chironomia’s examples! All this tells us much about our own relationship to notation. Today we expect notation to be used precisely enough to remove almost all need for imaginative re-creativity on the part of the performer. According to this view, annotators have the responsibility to guide performers accurately through every twist and turn of the text: we want to fall into a safety-net of clearly defined rules and conventions, to lean heavily on the supporting pillars of prescription. And yet, even without the high level of accuracy that the researcher longs for, there is more than enough information in Prosodia rationalis to make it a source of vital importance to those taking up the task of declamatory reconstruction. During the round table in New Orleans, the sound of Panos Iliopoulos’ computer-generated reconstructions will make this point more clearly than the mere written word ever can. Iliopoulos Figure 1: A detail from William Hogarth’s Credulity, superstition and fanaticism (1762) showing ‘W—d’s Scale of Vociferation’. 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