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Position:Home>Performing Arts> What's the real difference between talking and singing?Question: What's the real difference between talking and singing?This has been on my mind lately and I mean, how do you distinguish or explain the difference? I always thought that singer Johnny Cash mostly spoke his words, and didn't really sing. Is there a real difference that someone can actually define or quantify? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Singing has a flow and matching rhythm that is enforced by the music, which normally repeats. Poetry is spoken without the flow of music. Good speaking is done from the diaphragm also. We do not much appreciate rhetoric these days, but find a recording of King's "I have a dream" speech and listen to how he uses the phrases and words to build that. Now replay it in your mind with music that would make it a song - opera? |