"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and Notations, for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional ExpressionJ. P. Burbank, 1878 - 243 pages |
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Page v
... voice Oral modifications - Depravity 24-25 26 32 27-28 29 30-31 32-33 V. PRINCIPLES OF VOWEL FORMATION 35 33 Illustrative experiment 34-35 Organs of vowel modification 36-37 Three organic classes of vowels 38 General vowel scheme 40 ...
... voice Oral modifications - Depravity 24-25 26 32 27-28 29 30-31 32-33 V. PRINCIPLES OF VOWEL FORMATION 35 33 Illustrative experiment 34-35 Organs of vowel modification 36-37 Three organic classes of vowels 38 General vowel scheme 40 ...
Page vi
... voice varieties Obstructive and continuous do . Three modes of action First mode - Three points of contact Nasal elements Second and third modes General scheme of articulations Table of English articulations Table for phonetic analysis ...
... voice varieties Obstructive and continuous do . Three modes of action First mode - Three points of contact Nasal elements Second and third modes General scheme of articulations Table of English articulations Table for phonetic analysis ...
Page xii
... Promptitude . 97 Threatened Revenge Voices of the Night 97 Ties of Love War 84 , * 97 Time To the Butterfly True Courage True Greatness Truth Wisdom * 97 Wisdom of the Deity * 138 Wit 139 , 164 Woman 98 , 139 xii CONTENTS.
... Promptitude . 97 Threatened Revenge Voices of the Night 97 Ties of Love War 84 , * 97 Time To the Butterfly True Courage True Greatness Truth Wisdom * 97 Wisdom of the Deity * 138 Wit 139 , 164 Woman 98 , 139 xii CONTENTS.
Page xvi
... voice implies incom- pleteness of statement , and its mechanical opposite implies completeness . A knowledge of this simple Principle involves at once a knowledge of more than half the rules for Inflexion with which Elocutionists have ...
... voice implies incom- pleteness of statement , and its mechanical opposite implies completeness . A knowledge of this simple Principle involves at once a knowledge of more than half the rules for Inflexion with which Elocutionists have ...
Page xviii
... voice ; and this air is then moulded by the plastic oral organs into syllables , which , singly or in accentual combinations , constitute words . These words are arbitrarily appropriated to the expression of ideas , and thus we have ...
... voice ; and this air is then moulded by the plastic oral organs into syllables , which , singly or in accentual combinations , constitute words . These words are arbitrarily appropriated to the expression of ideas , and thus we have ...
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Elocutionary Manual. the Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and ... Alexander Melville Bell No preview available - 2015 |
Elocutionary Manual. the Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and ... Alexander Melville Bell No preview available - 2018 |
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accented syllable action adverb antithesis articulation blood body brave breath Brutus Cæsar clause compound dead death Diphthong doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic exercise expressive fall fear feel fool gesture give glottis grammatical grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honour house of York idea imitative implied inflexion labial larynx letters light lingual lips look lord marked mind modulation monophthong motion motley fool mouth nature never night notation nounced o'er P. J. Bailey passion pause phatic pitch poor predicate principle pronounced pronunciation reading rising Scotch sense sentence separate Shakespeare smile soft palate sorrow soul speak speaker spirit syllables tears tence thee thine things thou thought tion tones tongue unaccented unemphatic utterance verb Visible Speech vocal voice vowel sound W. E. Aytoun weep wind words wretched