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 |
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... utterance are , as yet , forming ; and adults , whose pro- fessional duties involve the exercise of public speaking . To the former , this manual will furnish the materials for a progressive cultivation and development of the vocal ...
... utterance are , as yet , forming ; and adults , whose pro- fessional duties involve the exercise of public speaking . To the former , this manual will furnish the materials for a progressive cultivation and development of the vocal ...
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... utterance of expressive emotion , or of distinctive meaning addressed to the understanding , by the process of unimpassioned articulation . - The methods of practical training , founded on the theory and the suggestions of Dr. Rush ...
... utterance of expressive emotion , or of distinctive meaning addressed to the understanding , by the process of unimpassioned articulation . - The methods of practical training , founded on the theory and the suggestions of Dr. Rush ...
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... utterance , debilitated organs , and sinking health having all united their depressing and nearly ruinous influence on the whole man.1 It will be perceived , by referring to the subjoined expressions of opinion , that , in pressing this ...
... utterance , debilitated organs , and sinking health having all united their depressing and nearly ruinous influence on the whole man.1 It will be perceived , by referring to the subjoined expressions of opinion , that , in pressing this ...
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... utterance for public speaking , and for singing , closes with a slight approach to e , in eve , but does not dwell on that element . That this compound form of the " tonic " o , in old , is a genuine tendency of the organs , in the ...
... utterance for public speaking , and for singing , closes with a slight approach to e , in eve , but does not dwell on that element . That this compound form of the " tonic " o , in old , is a genuine tendency of the organs , in the ...
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... utterance of singing , to a greater extent than in that of reading , - should never be dissected , in the unnatural style which has just been mentioned . - We have omitted , as will have been observed , that part of Dr. Rush's analysis ...
... utterance of singing , to a greater extent than in that of reading , - should never be dissected , in the unnatural style which has just been mentioned . - We have omitted , as will have been observed , that part of Dr. Rush's analysis ...
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abrupt accent action animated appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral quality aspirated quality atonic becomes BOOK OF PSALMS breath cadence character chest command Coriolanus deep degree designation diphthong distinct ditone downward slide earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution Elocutionist emotion enunciation error exact exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible gentle glottis grave guttural habit heart heaven High pitch human voice Impassioned impressive language larynx light lips Low pitch Median stress melody Middle Pitch Moderate mouth movement muscles musical scale nasal natural notes o'er orotund quality passion pauses peculiar pharynx phrases practice prolonged pronunciation prosodial pure tone purity of tone radical stress reader or speaker reading render Rush scale semitone sentence shout sion soft solemn soul speaking speech student style Subdued subtonic swell syllables termed thee thou tion tongue tonic trachea unimpassioned vanishing stress vivid vocal sound voice wave whispering words