The Orator's Manual: A Practical and Philosophical Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis and Gesture, Together with Selections for Declamation and Reading : Designed as a Text-book for Schools and Colleges, and for Public Speakers and Readers who are Obliged to Study Without an InstructorS.C. Griggs, 1879 - 342 Seiten |
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... syllable , and ending with the rising inflection : Do you mean to tell me that you could have thought that I could go all around town and tell everybody that I happened to meet that I could believe such a mean story about you as that ...
... syllable , and ending with the rising inflection : Do you mean to tell me that you could have thought that I could go all around town and tell everybody that I happened to meet that I could believe such a mean story about you as that ...
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... syllable is accented . a . There is a physical reason for accentuation . On examining the action of the throat , it is found that the current of sound flows through the vocal passages just as blood pulses through the veins or water ...
... syllable is accented . a . There is a physical reason for accentuation . On examining the action of the throat , it is found that the current of sound flows through the vocal passages just as blood pulses through the veins or water ...
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... syllables , and in the act of doing so neces- sarily slights others . But emphasis does precisely the same thing . Simply by increasing , therefore , the degree of habitual accent on a given syllable we can render emphatic the word in ...
... syllables , and in the act of doing so neces- sarily slights others . But emphasis does precisely the same thing . Simply by increasing , therefore , the degree of habitual accent on a given syllable we can render emphatic the word in ...
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... syllable after nature and character , and unaccented syllables both before and after high , so that high can be emphasized as well as most and God . Accordingly , to give the right emphasis and yet preserve the rhythm ( i . e . have the ...
... syllable after nature and character , and unaccented syllables both before and after high , so that high can be emphasized as well as most and God . Accordingly , to give the right emphasis and yet preserve the rhythm ( i . e . have the ...
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... syllables , but in some cases of half - a - dozen syllables . e . Observe also that when , instead of merely ceasing to make a sound , the voice fills up the interval of time by dwelling on a word ( as , in the last example , on Greece ...
... syllables , but in some cases of half - a - dozen syllables . e . Observe also that when , instead of merely ceasing to make a sound , the voice fills up the interval of time by dwelling on a word ( as , in the last example , on Greece ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abdomen abrupt arms Aspirate audience blood blót breast breath Cæsar circumflex clause conditional mood diaton e. g. Daily effus elbow emphatic explosive express expulsive falling inflection feel Finger gesture fingers fist forward front give grave Greece guttural hand heart heaven ideas idem idem idem imperative mood Ireland Itály kinds of stress liberty light lips Lochinvar long con Lord loud median stress medium pitch melody mouth move movement natural Netherby o'er orotund passages pauses position principle pure rising inflection Roman Rússia Semitonic sentence side slide slow smooth force soft sound Spartacus straight sustained force syllables terminal stress thee thou thought thumb tion tone unemphatic utterance voice vowel waist wave wave gesture wfsC words wrist Ꭱ Ꮎ Ꭱ Ꮯ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 286 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land...
Seite 309 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Seite 87 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Seite 30 - What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son...
Seite 247 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Seite 283 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Seite 56 - They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Seite 292 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe: "Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?
Seite 30 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Seite 306 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass ; methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer....