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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... feeling as if the breath were pent up , consists in a sudden and large inspiration and a full , strong , effusive expiration . In vocal training , it be comes a most efficacious means of free , unembarrassed res- piration , and ...
... feeling as if the breath were pent up , consists in a sudden and large inspiration and a full , strong , effusive expiration . In vocal training , it be comes a most efficacious means of free , unembarrassed res- piration , and ...
Page 27
... feeling , and , consequently , with a clear state of thought , utters his ideas distinctly and impressively , without special study . But defective or- ganization , neglected habit , false tendencies of feeling , and confused ...
... feeling , and , consequently , with a clear state of thought , utters his ideas distinctly and impressively , without special study . But defective or- ganization , neglected habit , false tendencies of feeling , and confused ...
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... feels , tools , howls , toils . Fault , melt , bolt , hilt . Elve , delve , helve , shelve , twelve , valve , devolve , revolve . M'd , ms , nd , ns , nk , nce , nt . Maim'd , claim'd , climb'd , gloom'd . Gleams , streams , climes ...
... feels , tools , howls , toils . Fault , melt , bolt , hilt . Elve , delve , helve , shelve , twelve , valve , devolve , revolve . M'd , ms , nd , ns , nk , nce , nt . Maim'd , claim'd , climb'd , gloom'd . Gleams , streams , climes ...
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... feeling of a reader or speaker , and , at the same time , to recognize the " quality , " as it is termed , — of his voice . WHISPERING . - - that The progressive discipline of the organs , for the pur- poses of utterance , comprises the ...
... feeling of a reader or speaker , and , at the same time , to recognize the " quality , " as it is termed , — of his voice . WHISPERING . - - that The progressive discipline of the organs , for the pur- poses of utterance , comprises the ...
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... feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and mountain coast , All is concentred in a life intense , Where not a beam , nor air , nor ...
... feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and mountain coast , All is concentred in a life intense , Where not a beam , nor air , nor ...
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abrupt accent appropriate appulsive articulation Aspirated pectoral aspirated quality breath character chest Coriolanus deep degree diatonic diphthong distinct downward earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution emotion enunciation epiglottis error examples exer exercise explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible function gentle give glottis grave guttural habit hath heart heaven horror human voice imparting Impassioned language larynx light lips Lord Low pitch Median stress melody ment mode of utterance moderate mouth movement muscles musical scale nasal natural o'er Pathos pauses Pectoral Quality perfect pitch practice prolonged prosodial pure tone purity of tone radical stress reader or speaker reading Rush semitone sentence shouting sion slide soft solemn soul speaking speech style subdued Sublimity subtonic swell syllables Teacher in District thee thou tion tongue tonic trachea tranquil unimpassioned vanishing stress vivid vocal organs vocal sound voice wave whispering words