A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . tion gives more importance to a word than a rising in-flection. Hence it should never be employed merelyfor the sake of variety ; but for emphasis and should a rising inflection be used for the sakeof mere harmony where a falling inflection wouldbetter express the meaning of the author. The sense should, in all cases, determine the direc-tion of inflections. Hence the absurdity of the term harmonic inflection as employed by Walker and hisdisciples—an inflec
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . tion gives more importance to a word than a rising in-flection. Hence it should never be employed merelyfor the sake of variety ; but for emphasis and should a rising inflection be used for the sakeof mere harmony where a falling inflection wouldbetter express the meaning of the author. The sense should, in all cases, determine the direc-tion of inflections. Hence the absurdity of the term harmonic inflection as employed by Walker and hisdisciples—an inflection which, for the sake of harmony,takes a direction contrary to that required by the sense !If a sentence is pronounced so as to bring out thesense in the most forcible manner, all the inflectionsmust necessarily be harmonic, or, more correctly speak-ing, melodic* Every modification of the voice, whichis not compatible with the sentiment, weakens the forceof the elocution by drawing off the attention of thehearer from the sense to the sound. See the note at the bottom of page 52. 52 ELOCUTION CHAPTER II. MELODY is a series of simplesounds, emanating from thevoice, or an instrument, sovaried in pitch as to producea pleasing effect upon the series of graphic notes bywhich these sounds are repre-sented, is also called is distinguished from harmony by not necessarily includ-ing a combination of parts. The term harmony, as employed inthe science of music, signifies a union of melodies, a succession ofcombined sounds, moving at consonant intervals, according to thelaws of modulation.* Notation is the graphic representation of a melody—in other words, the expression of a melody by writtencharacters. Intonation is the act of sounding the notes of a me-lody, either with the voice, or an instrument. Wheneach note is produced in its proper degree of pitch, theintonation is true; when the intervals are not observedwith exactness, the intonation is false
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