ISBN: 9780217243100

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... dcnce on the report? Is it probable that such an event could have been kept so long concealed? Shall we adopt the measures proposed by this speaker? Are the arguments which he has advanced sufficient to produce conviction? Can we proceed with perfect confidence that we shall not have to retrace our steps? Does the work relate to the interests of mankind? Is its object useful, and its end moral? Will it inform the understanding, and amend the heart? Is it written with freedom and impartiality? Does it bear the marks of honesty and sincerity? Does it attempt to ridicule anything that is good or great? Does a manly style of thinking predominate in it? Do reason, wit, humor, and pleasantry, prevail in it? Does it contain new and useful truths? CHAPTER VIk TIME. The chief characteristics of utterance, which are subjects of attention in vocal culture, are the quality of the voice, as sound, merely, and its expression, as produced by force, stress, melody, or pitch, and time, -- properties equivalent to those which are comprehended, in music, under the heads of quality, dynamics, (force,) melody, and rhythm, (the effect of the union of accent, or comparative force, and time, on the sequence of sounds.) The subject of time is that which remains to be discussed, as the ground of practical exercises in elocution. QUANTITY. The study of time, as a measure of speech, will lead to the primary classification of single vowel sounds, as long or short, in duration, according to their character and expression, as elements of language. The contrast, in the duration of the tonic element, or vowel sound, a, in the words male and female, will furnish examples; the a in the former being much longer, or, in other words, occupying a... William Russell, Books, History, Orthophony; Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J.R. Osgood and company in 1871 in 309 pages; Subjects: Elocution; Voice; History / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech; Music / Instruction & Study / Voice;<

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