In singing tone is sustained and changed from one pitch to another by definite intervals over a wide compass that includes notes not attempted in speech.

In speaking tone is unsustained, not defined in pitch, is limited to a narrow compass, and the length of the tones is not governed by the measure of music.
Notwithstanding these differences, singing and speaking tones are produced by the vocal organs in the same way, are focused precisely alike, have the same resonance, and are delivered in the same manner.
It has been said that speech differs from song as walking from dancing.

Speech may be called the prose, and song the poetry of vocalization.
During the past decade the knowledge of the speaking voice has been greatly broadened, and the art of cultivating tone has made progress.
The identity of the singing and speaking voice is becoming more fully recognized, and methods are being used to develop the latter similar to those in use for the training of the former.

As Dr.Morell Mackenzie says: "Singing is a help to good speaking, as the greater includes the less." The recognition of this truth cannot fail to be a great aid to the progress of singing in the public schools, since every enlargement of exercises common to both speaking and singing helps to solidarity and _esprit de corps_ in teaching and in learning.
An accurate sense of pitch, melody, harmony, and rhythm is necessary to the singer, but the orator may, by cultivation, develop a speaking voice of musical quality without being able to distinguish _Old Hundred_ from _The Last Rose of Summer_.
PRONUNCIATION It is a matter of common observation that American singers, although they may be painstaking in their French and German, are indifferent, even to carelessness, in the clear and finished enunciation of their native tongue.

Mr.W.J.Henderson, in his recent work, _The Art of the Singer_, says: "The typical American singer cannot sing his own language so that an audience can understand him; nine-tenths of the songs we hear are songs without words." Happily this condition is gradually yielding to a better one, stimulated in part by the examples of visiting singers and actors.