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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... distinct classes of instructers for the voice : one , to superintend practice in pitch ; another , to conduct the exercises in force , and a third , to regulate vocal melody and inflections . Modern taste forbids this fastidious ...
... distinct classes of instructers for the voice : one , to superintend practice in pitch ; another , to conduct the exercises in force , and a third , to regulate vocal melody and inflections . Modern taste forbids this fastidious ...
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... distinct , effective , and appropriate utterance . Continuing our investigation of voice , we return , for a moment , to the case of a person in the act of silent reading . Let the reader come to a passage , not of exciting effect or ...
... distinct , effective , and appropriate utterance . Continuing our investigation of voice , we return , for a moment , to the case of a person in the act of silent reading . Let the reader come to a passage , not of exciting effect or ...
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... distinct articulation , in the function of speech . Used with exact adaptation to their office , they give a clear and distinct character to enunciation ; but , remissly exerted , they cause a course hissing , resembling the sibilation ...
... distinct articulation , in the function of speech . Used with exact adaptation to their office , they give a clear and distinct character to enunciation ; but , remissly exerted , they cause a course hissing , resembling the sibilation ...
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... distinct articulation . CHAPTER II . FUNCTION OF BREATHING . THE organs of voice , in common with all other parts of the bodily frame , require the vigor and pliancy of muscle , and the elasticity and animation of nerve , which result ...
... distinct articulation . CHAPTER II . FUNCTION OF BREATHING . THE organs of voice , in common with all other parts of the bodily frame , require the vigor and pliancy of muscle , and the elasticity and animation of nerve , which result ...
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... distinct enunciation , the unfailing characteristic of correct intellectual habits , and the only means of exact and intelligible communication by speech . But a distinct enunciation is wholly dependent on the action of the organs , on ...
... distinct enunciation , the unfailing characteristic of correct intellectual habits , and the only means of exact and intelligible communication by speech . But a distinct enunciation is wholly dependent on the action of the organs , on ...
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