Behave So Strangely

In this section, you will briefly examine the sometimes ambiguous nature between speech and singing.

1. Download the following sound clip: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/mus_illus/strangely.wav.

2. As in the previous section, play the clip until all members of your group have been able to hear it. While you should initially hear the spoken text as regular speech, the repetition of the text should result, amazingly, in the speech acquiring a sort of sung quality. Can you hear this effect?