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 |
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... plaintive manner , with surprise , interro- gation , or other impressive sentiments , or as if it were the close of a sentence , the concrete will be some other interval than the tone , or will move in a downward direction ; this tone ...
... plaintive manner , with surprise , interro- gation , or other impressive sentiments , or as if it were the close of a sentence , the concrete will be some other interval than the tone , or will move in a downward direction ; this tone ...
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... plaintive character . Now the interval from the seventh to the eighth place of the diatonic scale , is a semitone . This plaintive concrete rise is then the radical and vanishing movement through a semitone . By a process analogous to ...
... plaintive character . Now the interval from the seventh to the eighth place of the diatonic scale , is a semitone . This plaintive concrete rise is then the radical and vanishing movement through a semitone . By a process analogous to ...
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... plaintive expression in speech ; therefore it is easy to discriminate a semitone . And I have full confidence in as- serting , that before the attentive reader has finished this essay , he will have no more difficulty in recognizing ...
... plaintive expression in speech ; therefore it is easy to discriminate a semitone . And I have full confidence in as- serting , that before the attentive reader has finished this essay , he will have no more difficulty in recognizing ...
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... plaintive expression , arising from the peculiar position of the semitones . But we shall see here- after that the plaintiveness of speech is produced by an entirely different method of intonation . The melody of Music , whether in the ...
... plaintive expression , arising from the peculiar position of the semitones . But we shall see here- after that the plaintiveness of speech is produced by an entirely different method of intonation . The melody of Music , whether in the ...
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... plaintive ex- pression , and is not , as far as I have observed , employed for any of those purposes of interrogation , conditionality or con- cession , which are here ascribed to the major third . The rare occasions of its use in ...
... plaintive ex- pression , and is not , as far as I have observed , employed for any of those purposes of interrogation , conditionality or con- cession , which are here ascribed to the major third . The rare occasions of its use in ...
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a-we accent applied arsis and thesis aspiration atonic cadence called character chromatic melody concrete movement concrete rise consists constituents continued crete current melody degree descending diatonic melody diatonic scale dignity diphthongal discourse discrete distinction downward concrete drift effect elocution emphasis emphatic employed equable concrete equal expression falsette faults force fulness function give glottis heard higher intervals human voice immutable syllables indefinite inverted Julius Cæsar long quantity marked means ment minor third mode of intonation modes of stress musical nature notation orotund passion pause peculiar perception phatic phrases plaintive produced pronunciation purpose radical and vanishing radical change radical pitch radical stress reader require rythmus scale semitone sentence sentiment short simple rise song sound speaker speaking speech subtonic succession symbol tion tone tremor tremulous utterance uvula vanishing movement vanishing stress varied vocal voice wave whilst words
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