The Technic of the Speaking Voice: Its Development, Training, and Artistic Use, Based Upon Rush's Philosophy of the Human Voice and the Teaching and Example of James E. Murdoch1915 - 660 pages |
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... contours , or tunes , in speech ; but made the vital mistake of regarding them as the servitors of syntax , in- stead of recognizing in melody the autocrat that plays at will with verbal and grammatical forms , so that at his touch they ...
... contours , or tunes , in speech ; but made the vital mistake of regarding them as the servitors of syntax , in- stead of recognizing in melody the autocrat that plays at will with verbal and grammatical forms , so that at his touch they ...
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... contour of the wave ; d . The wave repeated , with light but clear radical and smooth , full median swell , increasing to and diminishing from the crest of the wave . Take care to open the throat more and more as the swell in- creases ...
... contour of the wave ; d . The wave repeated , with light but clear radical and smooth , full median swell , increasing to and diminishing from the crest of the wave . Take care to open the throat more and more as the swell in- creases ...
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... contour . Complete cadences should not be made on ' struggle ' and ' theater . ' The last syllable of each of these two words should receive a rising . second , equivalent to the continuative hook : except this modification , both words ...
... contour . Complete cadences should not be made on ' struggle ' and ' theater . ' The last syllable of each of these two words should receive a rising . second , equivalent to the continuative hook : except this modification , both words ...
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... contour . ' Overabundance ' should be read with the outline or , if it is intended to contrast poverty and overabundance , simply ; but , to intimate the probably - intended ellipsis , the unspoken part of the thought , ' overabundance ...
... contour . ' Overabundance ' should be read with the outline or , if it is intended to contrast poverty and overabundance , simply ; but , to intimate the probably - intended ellipsis , the unspoken part of the thought , ' overabundance ...
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... contour , of a whole group with a stroke of pen or pencil , and as ex- pressing concisely and intelligibly both the melody and the motive of any given emphatic phrase . They leave a huge margin to ' the personal equation ' in the matter ...
... contour , of a whole group with a stroke of pen or pencil , and as ex- pressing concisely and intelligibly both the melody and the motive of any given emphatic phrase . They leave a huge margin to ' the personal equation ' in the matter ...
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Page 245 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 154 - I have no pleasure in them : while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 157 - 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...
Page 249 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 220 - And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say, 'Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 492 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 246 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 398 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 215 - 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 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my Thought, Yea, with my Life and Life's own secret joy: Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled...
Page 641 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.