Voice, song, and speechG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - 322 էջ |
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abdomen action bass body called Cartilages of Santorini cause cavities chest cold collar-bone breathing consequently contralto corset cubic inches cuneiform cartilage disease elastic epiglottis Eustachian tubes exercise experience expiration falsetto fauces female front glottis human voice inflation inhale inspiration instrument laryngeal image laryngeal mirror laryngoscope Lennox Browne lips lower thin lungs means mechanism ments midriff mouth movements mucous membrane muscular musical nasal natural nostrils observations octaves pharynx phonation pitch plates pocket ligaments position practice produce tone production of tone pyramids quality of tone reader reed resonance respiration result ribs ring cartilage ring-shield Santorini seen shape shield cartilage shield-pyramid muscles singer singing soft palate soprano sound speaking strings tenor thick register throat tion tongue tube tuning-fork upper thick uvula vibrations vocal chink vocal ligaments vocal organ vocal tone VOICE-BOX OR LARYNX voice-user vowel windpipe Wrisberg
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Էջ xv - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note...
Էջ 37 - Shakespeare), may with all right be called a world-language ; and like the English people appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway more extensive even than its present over all the portions of the globe. For in wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it...
Էջ 147 - The method which I have adopted is very simple. It consists in placing a little mirror, fixed on a long handle suitably bent, in the throat of the person experimented on against the soft palate and uvula. The party ought to turn himself towards the sun, so that the luminous rays falling on the little mirror, may be reflected on the larynx. If the observer...
Էջ 169 - For the production of tones iu the •'small" register — the highest part of the soprano voice — the mechanism •' consists in the formation of an oval orifice in the front part of the glottis which contracts the more the higher the voice ascends, the vocal ligaments being, in the hinder part, pressed together so tightly that scarcely any trace of a slit remains.
Էջ 34 - ... damped. The astonishing nature of such a case of sympathetic vibration will appear, if we merely compare the heavy and powerful mass of steel set in motion with the light, yielding mass of air, which produces effect by such small motive power that it could not stir the lightest spring which was not in tune with the fork. With such forks the time required to set them in full swing by sympathetic action is also of sensible duration, and the slightest disagreement in pitch is sufficient to produce...
Էջ 61 - ... other parts in the interior of the larynx be destroyed, the animal is able to emit vocal sounds. The existence of an opening in the larynx of a living animal or of man, above the glottis,* in no way prevents the formation of vocal sound ; such an opening, if situated in the trachea, causes total loss of voice, but by simply closing it vocal sounds can again be produced. Such openings in man are met with either as the results of accidents, of...
Էջ 37 - In truth the English language, which by no mere accident has produced and upborne the greatest and most predominant poet of modern times, as distinguished from the...
Էջ 1 - If any one doubts the importance of an acquaintance with the fundamental principles of physiology as a means of complete living, let him look around and see how many men and women he can find in middle or late life who are thoroughly well.
Էջ 190 - Speech," on p. 146, there is this statement: "A little consideration will show that it is wrong to try and control the exit of the breath, as some would have us do, by a contraction of the glottis, because the comparatively tiny muscles of the larynx are too weak to resist with impunity so tremendous a strain ; while the large and powerful muscles of the chest are clearly made to regulate expiration as well as inspiration. It is absurd on the face of it to suppose that they are only intended for...
Էջ 120 - ... discipline, which Father Zosima represents, there is no doubt that he conceived this episode in a spirit of poetic irony, transcending the narrow view of any positivism and scepticism. In other words, in this episode Dostoevski aims not at a "suspension," but rather at a tension, of "belief" and "disbelief." That such is the case is shown by the fact that the opposite phenomenon unexpectedly happens, in an equally natural and unnatural way, at the death of the child Iliusha. While the "scandal...