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Loud and soft tones are altogether different from high and low , as those even but little acquainted with music can tell . Piano and forte have no relation to pitch or key , but to force and quantity , and when applied to the voice ...
Loud and soft tones are altogether different from high and low , as those even but little acquainted with music can tell . Piano and forte have no relation to pitch or key , but to force and quantity , and when applied to the voice ...
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And instead of adding much to his action , he who studies it the most carefully , will only be inclined to alter it for the better , or perhaps in many places to retrench it altogether . The art of gesture however culti vated , is not ...
And instead of adding much to his action , he who studies it the most carefully , will only be inclined to alter it for the better , or perhaps in many places to retrench it altogether . The art of gesture however culti vated , is not ...
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And these characters will not altogether forsake his reading , even in the moments of absence , when the best men's thoughts wander from the immediate and important subject which ought to occupy them solely.® They who read the Service ...
And these characters will not altogether forsake his reading , even in the moments of absence , when the best men's thoughts wander from the immediate and important subject which ought to occupy them solely.® They who read the Service ...
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Contents
Chironomia or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery | 1 |
Of the Voice | 27 |
Of the VoiceGeneral Precepts | 67 |
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| Title | Chironomia: Or, A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery Landmarks in rhetoric and public address |
| Author | Gilbert Austin |
| Editors | Mary Margaret Robb, Lester Thonssen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Southern Illinois University Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0809302292, 9780809302291 |
| Length | 583 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General |
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