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Recitation Handclasp
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When someone is reciting something from memory (or singing something from memory, as in a recital), they quite often assume a certain posture: Standing erect, they clasp the fingers of each hand together. See photo for example. (Photo comes from a comic parody of the Major General Song.) Apparently there is sound reason for this posture; pulling on one's arms thusly expands the chest cavity, allowing for more lung capacity and thus volume. Perhaps a Discredited Trope, as it was probably done a lot more in the 19th century than today; modern classical singing technique expands the chest, sides, and back by other techniques which do not require alterations of a neutral standing posture, and a singer trained this way would have no reason to employ the hand-clasp. | |
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This is done in Miss Congeniality by Miss California, during her opera talent portions. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: In a segment of Greatest Hits, Wayne and Josie sing a song about chiropractors in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, assuming this position as a parody of those types of songs. And it's awesome. Wayne Brady also takes this pose in one episode during a game of "Theater and Film Styles", when Drew Carey calls out, "Gilbert and Sullivan." |
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Giovanni Jones (the fat opera singer) assumes this posture in the Looney Tunes short, "Long-Haired Hare." | |
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Animaniacs: Wakko Warner makes a point of doing this in the "Great Wakkorotti" shorts. | |
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Kay Lemp, possibly out of nervousness, does this when making her national radio debut as a singer in Four Daughters. | |
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The knights of Camelot assume this posture (when they're not dancing on the tables) during the "Knights of the Round Table" song in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. | |
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The cast of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip did it when singing their version of Major General. | |
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Angela does this on The Office when singing "The Little Drummer Boy" at the office Christmas party (episode "A Benihana Christmas"). | |
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the narration always tells us she folded her hands before she recited something, which happened frequently since random characters were always ordering her to recite this or that poem. Most of what came out was a parody of Victorian moral poetry, though the allusions are all but lost to today's readers. | |
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The Loud House: Lucy does this at the end of "Head Poet's Anxiety" while reciting at a poetry show. | |
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In Brave, Merida assumes this position when receiving elocution lessons from her mother Elinor. | |
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A backstage video of X Japan doing post-production catches hide doing this to mock a particularly bombastic part of "Dahlia." Toshi joins in. | |
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Done without irony as a beginning and ending pose for the poetic recitations in the movie of Anne of Green Gables. | |
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In the Family Guy episode, "Model Misbehavior", Peter (all four of him) takes this position when reminiscing about the time he was a member of the singing group, "the Four Peters" (basically humming "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Mozart). | |
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Alice did this when she was reciting poetry in the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. | |
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