BOOK I. PRACTICE OF SPEECH. DEFINITIONS. Page 12 16 The Object of the Speaker; Characteristics of a good Voice, 9 VOICE FORMATION,-VOCALITY.-Breathing Practice, TONE FORMATION.-Direction of Tone; Position of Jaw, DIRECTION AND VIBRATION OF TONE.-To Open the Throat; Exercises; Benefit of Exercises, 22 SUB-VOCALITY.-Tone and Breath Sounds, 33 COMBINED ASPIRATION.-To Produce Consonant Sounds; Base Consonant Formation, ARTICULATION CHARTS.-Chart of Consonant Articulation; TONE RANGE AND FLEXIBILITY.-Exercises, SCALE PRACTICE.-Climax and Transition, USE OF WORDS.-Examples, OBSERVATIONS.-Emphatic Sentences; To Determine Em phasis; Open and Close Vocal Sounds, VOICE MOVEMENT.-Rising Tones; Falling Tones, 34 67 PITCH OF CONSONANTS.-Emphatic Upward Movement, INFLECTION OF PHRASES-Positive or Negative; Observation, 69 VOICE MOVEMENT.-Swell and Stress; Orotund Tone, 77 78 MOVEMENT.-Head Movement; Forward or Backward, BODY MOVEMENT.-Turning; Extension; Swaying, WAIST MOVEMENT.-Below the Waist; Kneeling, ARM MOVEMENT.-Full Arm Stroke; Raising the Arm; Full Arm Movement; Circle; Combined Circle; Compound Curves; Horizontal Movement of Arm; Compound Curve; Pointing; Arm and Foot Movement; Hand Movement, MIND CONCEPTION.-Like and Dislike, Positive or Negative; GESTURE-ACTION.-Gesture, Word Pictures; Gesture, Nega- BOOK I. PRACTICE OF SPEECH. "Wit, words and worth; Action and utterance and the power of speech, to stir men's blood!"-Shakespeare. -"Many an idea has been driven home by an explosive tone."Beecher. "Do nothing in imitation of a teacher,-avoid all his mannerisms. But, if he shows you underlying principles of speaking,-exercises to develop and train your voice, to make you graceful in gesture, practice perseveringly, patiently and critically."-Jno. B. Gough, Lecture on Eloquence. |