The Philosophy of the Human Voice: Embracing Its Physiological History; Together with a System of Principles, by which Criticism in the Art of Elocution May be Rendered Intelligible, and Instruction, Definite and Comprehensive. To which is Added A Brief Analysis of Song and Recitative

J. Crissy, printer, 1845 - 499 páginas

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... Accent , 318 XLV . Of Emphasis , 325 Of the Radical Emphasis , 326 Of the Median Emphasis , 327 Of the Vanishing Emphasis , 328 Of the Compound Emphasis , 429 Of the Thorough Emphasis , 330 Of the Aspirated Emphasis , 331 Of the ...

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... accent and emphasis , appropriate places in speech . They perceived the existence of pitch , or variation of high and low and were the first to make an exact and beautiful analysis on this subject . They dis- covered two modes of ascent ...

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... Accent . They made three kinds of accents , the acute , the grave , and the circum- flex ; signifying , severally , the rise , fall , and turn of the voice . The existence , in Greek manuscripts , of certain marks , which however were ...

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... accent , which encourages the profitless la- bors , and alternate triumphs of party ; which subjects opi- nion to all the chicanery of sectarian argument , and shuts out the conclusive inquiries of independent observation . In the full ...

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... accent and quantity , which were supposed to belong exclusively to the Greek and Latin : for this was the subject of controversy . Mr. Steele has therefore given a notation of the time of the voice ; and shown that the same concrete ...

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INTRODUCTION	xxi

SECTION I	43

IV	85

VI	124

VII	145

IX	151

X	174

XII	187

Of the Tremor of the Voice	282

Of Force of Voice	292

Of the Radical Stress	294

Of the Median Stress	300

Of the Vanishing Stress	303

Of the Compound Stress	306

Of the Thorough Stress	308

Of the Time of the Concrete	309

Of the Interval of the Octave	195

Of the Intonation of Interrogative Sentences	202

Of the Interval of the Second	220

Of the Interval of the Semitone and of the Chro matic Melody founded thereon	224

Of the Downward Radical and Vanishing Move ment	234

Of the Downward Octave	238

Of the Downward Fifth	239

Of the Downward Third	242

Of the Downward Second and Semitone	246

Of the Wave of the Voice	248

Of the EqualWave of the Octave	254

Of the EqualWave of the Fifth	255

Of the EqualWave of the Third	257

Of the EqualWave of the Second	258

Of the EqualWave of the Semitone	261

Of the Wave of unequal Intervals	263

Of the Intonation of Exclamatory Sentences	271

Of the Aspiration	310

Of the Emphatic Vocule	315

Of the Guttural Vibration	317

Of Accent	318

Of Emphasis	325

Of the Radical Emphasis	326

Of the Median Emphasis	327

Of the Vanishing Emphasis	328

Of the Compound Emphasis 429	329

Of the Thorough Emphasis	330

Of the Aspirated Emphasis	331

Of the Emphatic Vocule	332

Of the Temporal Emphasis	333

Of the Mode of Instruction in Elocution	394

Of Faults in the Second	441

A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF SONG AND RECITATIVE	471

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Título	The Philosophy of the Human Voice: Embracing Its Physiological History; Together with a System of Principles, by which Criticism in the Art of Elocution May be Rendered Intelligible, and Instruction, Definite and Comprehensive. To which is Added A Brief Analysis of Song and Recitative
Autor	James Rush
Edición	3
Editor	J. Crissy, printer, 1845
Procedencia del original	Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York
Digitalizado	24 Mayo 2007
Largo	499 páginas

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