Excerpt from The Character and Function of Music in Chinese Culture
In addition to these instrumental tone varieties, the human voice has also played an exceedingly important part in musical expression not only in actual singing of melody but in the inflections which the voice must 'use for correct speech. The inflections of the voice determine, in large part, the meaning of the spoken word as it conveys an idea.
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