Orthophony, Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice" and the System of Vocal Culture Introduced by Mr. James Murdoch : Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist" |
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... successive sounds is , farther , slow , rapid , or mode- rate , as regards the rate of movement . These properties , - force , pitch , and rate , or movement , coexist in one strain of utterance , and are , to the ear , independent of ...
... successive sounds is , farther , slow , rapid , or mode- rate , as regards the rate of movement . These properties , - force , pitch , and rate , or movement , coexist in one strain of utterance , and are , to the ear , independent of ...
Page 77
... successive stages of mere loudness of voice . It will be found a useful practice to repeat the first line of each example in succession . - After having completed the practice on force , as prescribed in the preceding exercises , in ...
... successive stages of mere loudness of voice . It will be found a useful practice to repeat the first line of each example in succession . - After having completed the practice on force , as prescribed in the preceding exercises , in ...
Page 78
... successive degrees of force , when not distracted by attention to anything else than the one point of mere loudness . This exercise can never injure , but will always strengthen , even weak organs , if the gradation of voice be duly ...
... successive degrees of force , when not distracted by attention to anything else than the one point of mere loudness . This exercise can never injure , but will always strengthen , even weak organs , if the gradation of voice be duly ...
Page 100
... successive jets , in- stead of gushing forth in a continuous stream of unbroken sound , a tremor , or tremulous effect of voice , is produced , which breaks its " stress " into tittles or points ; —much in the same way that a row of ...
... successive jets , in- stead of gushing forth in a continuous stream of unbroken sound , a tremor , or tremulous effect of voice , is produced , which breaks its " stress " into tittles or points ; —much in the same way that a row of ...
Page 105
... successive notes of the voice , in a passage of music or of discourse . The use of this term presupposes , both in music and in speech , a certain " pitch , " or initial note , whether predomi- nating in a passage , or merely commencing ...
... successive notes of the voice , in a passage of music or of discourse . The use of this term presupposes , both in music and in speech , a certain " pitch , " or initial note , whether predomi- nating in a passage , or merely commencing ...
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accent ah ah appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral quality aspirated quality BOOK OF PSALMS breath cadence character chest CORIOLANUS deep degree designation diphthong distinct ditone downward slide earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution emotion emphasis enunciation error exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible gentle glottis grave guttural habit heart heaven High pitch horror human voice Impassioned impressive language larynx light Lord Low pitch Median stress melody Metre Middle pitch mode Moderate monotone mouth movement muscles musical scale natural notes o'er octave orotund quality orthophony passion pauses pharynx phrases practice prolonged prosodial pure tone purity of tone quantity radical stress reading render rhythm scale semitone sentence shout sion soft solemn soul speaking speech student style Subdued subtonic syllables termed thee thou tion tonic trachea unimpassioned upward slide utterance vanishing stress verse vivid vocal organs vocal sound voice wave whispering words
Popular passages
Page 257 - Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,...
Page 198 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ; who is the father of us all...
Page 136 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day with patient expectation To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 116 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 266 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 284 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 244 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 269 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 275 - Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies, streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, — bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as 'What is all this worth?
Page 267 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.