A System of Practical Elocution and Rhetorical Gesture: Comprising All the Elements of Vocal Delivery, Both as a Science and as an Art; So Arranged and Exemplified as to Make it Easy of Acquisition for Private Learners Without a Teacher, as Well as for the Use of Common Schools, Academies, Seminaries ... |
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accented aspiration cadence called Chromatic chromatic scale compound concrete third consonant elements constituent crete current melody degree diatonic melody diatonic scale diphthongal discourse discrete distinct downward concrete effect elements of expression elocution emotions emphasis emphatic words employed executed exercise exhibited falling concrete falsette feeling fifth fifth element force forcible fourth fulness function gesture give glottis Guttural hand heard inflection interrogative intervals intonation key-note larynx letters lips long quantity Loud Concrete Median Stress ment mode mouth movement necessary notation octave organs of speech Orotund pauses per-vocos phatic phrases of melody placed position preceding produced pronounced radical and vanish radical pitch Radical Stress rapid concrete reading require semi-tone sense sentence sentiment short quantity speaker speaking sub-vocos succession syllables teeth tence thee thou tion tone tongue tremor tremulous triphthongs Tritone upward utterance Vanishing Stress voco vocule vowel element wave