Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises, Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice," and Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist." |
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... BREATH- ING , as a preliminary to the use of the voice . — 3. The practice of ENUNCIATION , in the act of articulating elementary sounds and syl- lables , and of pronouncing words . —4 . The study of the various " QUALITIES " of the ...
... BREATH- ING , as a preliminary to the use of the voice . — 3. The practice of ENUNCIATION , in the act of articulating elementary sounds and syl- lables , and of pronouncing words . —4 . The study of the various " QUALITIES " of the ...
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... BREATHING , · Exercises in Breathing , & c . , 24-26 CH . III . ENUNCIATION , * " Tonic " Elements explain- ed and exemplified , " Subtonic " Elements , " Atonic " 66 Vowels and Diphthongs , Vocal and Diphthongal Ele- ments ...
... BREATHING , · Exercises in Breathing , & c . , 24-26 CH . III . ENUNCIATION , * " Tonic " Elements explain- ed and exemplified , " Subtonic " Elements , " Atonic " 66 Vowels and Diphthongs , Vocal and Diphthongal Ele- ments ...
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... breathing . A person in health , and free from pain , breathes without any perceptible sound , but that gentle whispering effect which is produced by inspiration and expiration , drawing ... breath . We observe this process exemplified in 1.
... breathing . A person in health , and free from pain , breathes without any perceptible sound , but that gentle whispering effect which is produced by inspiration and expiration , drawing ... breath . We observe this process exemplified in 1.
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... breathing apparatus . Breath thus becomes sound . We have here the history of involuntary voice . A parallel illustration might be drawn from the hard breathing , the suppressed or loud groans , and the articulate exclamations , of a ...
... breathing apparatus . Breath thus becomes sound . We have here the history of involuntary voice . A parallel illustration might be drawn from the hard breathing , the suppressed or loud groans , and the articulate exclamations , of a ...
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... breath . " The reader , so situated , neither at- tempts to inhale a fresh breath , nor to let go that which he has inhaled ; his chest becomes , as it were , fixed and im- movable ; in the intensity of his attention to a mental ob ...
... breath . " The reader , so situated , neither at- tempts to inhale a fresh breath , nor to let go that which he has inhaled ; his chest becomes , as it were , fixed and im- movable ; in the intensity of his attention to a mental ob ...
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