Orthophony: Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in ElocutionFields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 - 294 pages |
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... habits of utterance are , as yet , forming ; and adults , whose pro- fessional duties involve the exercise of public ... habit in the use of the organs of speech , and of acquiring the command of an easy , healthful , and effective mode ...
... habits of utterance are , as yet , forming ; and adults , whose pro- fessional duties involve the exercise of public ... habit in the use of the organs of speech , and of acquiring the command of an easy , healthful , and effective mode ...
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... habits of students and professional men , render them liable not only to organic disability of utterance , and to injury of the lungs , but to numerous faults of habit , in their modes of exerting the organs of speech , faults which ...
... habits of students and professional men , render them liable not only to organic disability of utterance , and to injury of the lungs , but to numerous faults of habit , in their modes of exerting the organs of speech , faults which ...
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... habits of utterance , debilitated organs , and sinking health having all united their depressing and nearly ruinous influence on the whole man.1 It will be perceived , by referring to the subjoined expressions of opinion , that , in ...
... habits of utterance , debilitated organs , and sinking health having all united their depressing and nearly ruinous influence on the whole man.1 It will be perceived , by referring to the subjoined expressions of opinion , that , in ...
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... habits of voice and action , a student may bring with him to our literary institutions ; but he will find little opportu- nity , there , of acquiring or of perfecting such accomplishments , till a correct and graceful elocution is duly ...
... habits of voice and action , a student may bring with him to our literary institutions ; but he will find little opportu- nity , there , of acquiring or of perfecting such accomplishments , till a correct and graceful elocution is duly ...
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... habit of keeping the chest open and erect , is indispensable to the pro- duction of a full , round tone of voice ... habits are studious and sedentary , and especially to females , the vigoro is exercise of the organs of respiration and ...
... habit of keeping the chest open and erect , is indispensable to the pro- duction of a full , round tone of voice ... habits are studious and sedentary , and especially to females , the vigoro is exercise of the organs of respiration and ...
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abrupt accent action animated appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral quality aspirated quality atonic becomes BOOK OF PSALMS breath cadence character chest command Coriolanus deep degree designation diphthong distinct ditone downward slide earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution Elocutionist emotion enunciation error exact exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible gentle glottis grave guttural habit heart heaven High pitch human voice Impassioned impressive language larynx light lips Low pitch median stress melody Middle Pitch Moderate mouth movement muscles musical scale nasal natural notes o'er orotund quality passion pauses peculiar pharynx phrases practice prolonged pronunciation prosodial pure tone purity of tone radical stress reader or speaker reading render Rush scale semitone sentence shout sion soft solemn soul speaking speech student style Subdued subtonic swell syllables termed thee thou tion tongue tonic trachea unimpassioned vanishing stress vivid vocal sound voice wave whispering words
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