. Brown's standard elocution and speaker; a thoroughly practical treatise on the science and art of human expression. ating in colds, attack the weakestorgans of the body. The properly trainedsinger and speaker are rarely from lung and throat troublesamong professional orators and singersis due to the skillful use of every organinvolved in respiration, speech, and public speaker or singer who excuseshis performance by confessing hoarse-ness thereby acknowledges his ignoranceand violation of one of natures simplestlawrs. 6. If the teacher or student be disposed to igno
. Brown's standard elocution and speaker; a thoroughly practical treatise on the science and art of human expression. ating in colds, attack the weakestorgans of the body. The properly trainedsinger and speaker are rarely from lung and throat troublesamong professional orators and singersis due to the skillful use of every organinvolved in respiration, speech, and public speaker or singer who excuseshis performance by confessing hoarse-ness thereby acknowledges his ignoranceand violation of one of natures simplestlawrs. 6. If the teacher or student be disposed to ignore thehygienic value of correct breathing, he is reminded that thehighest form of humanutterance, whether aspirated or vocal-ized in speech, or intonated in measured harmony, is basedupon the most intelligent command and use of the respiratoryapparatus. The stuttering, gasping, incoherent, flighty, jerky,or impetuous speech, one sometimes hears from a novice inthe art of public speaking or singing, is not traceable alone toinexperience, but, in most cases, to nervous embarrassmentcaused by imperfect RESPIRATION 18 browns standard elocution 7. It may be further stated that a larger part of the train-ing course prescribed for orators and singers in professionalschools is devoted to securing command over the breath inspeech and song; and that the heart-reaching, soul-stirringrendition of those sublime passages which have in ages pastmoved the stoic to action and the sage to tears, can be re-produced only, after all other conditions are present, by thatperfect adaptation of breath to the molding of words that live,and burn, and glow—melting the heart to tears, filling the earwith rapture, and illuminating the soul with celestial light,until the very air seems filled with seraphic melodies of intelli-gences divine. 8. Every muscle of the waist, chest, ribs, axilla, back andloins, must be brought into action, and trained by intelligentand persistent practice to perfor
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