Hidden Melodies: Discovering the music in our speech

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The way you speak has rhythm, timbre, and pitch. It’s more like music than you might think. We chat with The Allusionist host Helen Zaltzman, Martin Zaltz Austwick from Song by Song, Music Psychologist Dr. Ani Patel of Tufts University, and Drum Composer David Dockery on how musical our speech really is. Twenty Thousand Hertz is hosted by Dallas Taylor and produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/themusicinspeech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. I'm Dallas Taylor. The way we talk is really interesting, and lately, it's something I've been thinking about
0:40.1	a lot. See, apparently when you start a podcast, you suddenly find out about every weird little
0:46.0	quirk in your voice. Anyway, what makes someone's voice interesting to listen to? Well, recently,
0:52.3	I came across a video on YouTube that completely changed the way
0:55.7	I think about speech. Basically, it's a drummer and a bassist playing along to one of the most
1:00.4	famous scenes in Willy Wonka. The lifetime supply of chocolate for Charlie. When does he get it?
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1:17.6	After hearing this, my mind tuned in on just how musical speech really is.
1:22.6	Our voice isn't an instrument only when we're singing.
1:25.6	It's an instrument all the time.
1:32.0	Everyday speech has a rhythm, a timbre, and tonality. And even without thinking about it,
1:37.6	your speech patterns are communicating a lot of underlying meaning. I talked to a few other
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