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CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

Music. Its original use.-Equally applicable

to Speech as to Song.- Distinction between

the Music of Song and the Music of Speech.

Organs of Speech.-Their Uses, &c.

CHAP. II.

Constituents of all Language-Five Accidents

or Properties of Speech.-Accent defined

and restored to its original meaning-Causes

of Varieties of Accent.-How they become

the distinguishing characteristics of peculiar

modes of Speech.-The Acute Accent.-

The Grave Accent-The Acute and Grave

and the Grave and Acute.-Complete and par-

tial Circumflexes or Grace Notes.-Exer-

cises on the Accents

CHAP. III.

Quantity.-Names of the Notes of Quantity.

Manner of lengthening Quantities.- Ac-

cent and Quantity combined-Exercises

CHAP. IV.

Pauses or Rests.-Grammatical Punctuation.

-Rhetorical Punctuation.-The important

use of Rhetorical Punctuation.-Examples

- of Rhetorical Pauses.-Ordinary Time.-

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Quick Time.-Slow Time. -Interrogation

and Exclamation.-The Break or Dash

CHAP. V.

Emphasis, what-Organic and Syllabic Empha-

sis. How marked on every Syllable

CHAP. VI.

Cadence, what-How Cadences are formed by

our breathing, the beating of the pulse, and

our movement in walking.-Common and

Triple cadences

CHAP. VII.

Meter, or Measure, what-Common and Tri-

ple. Varieties of Meter.-Two or Three,

the divisors of all Meter

CHAP, VIII.

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Rhythm. Ancient Rhythm, what-Essentials

of all Rhythm.-Rhythm, like Speech, pecu-

liar to man.-Only two modes of it in Nature.

-Rhythm inseparable from Speech and Music 100

CHAP. IX.

Various kinds of meter and cadences.-Rhythm,

Common and Triple.-Exercises

CHAP. X.

Fifth Accident of Language.-Force or Quality

of Sound. Swelling or Increasing in Loud-

ness-Decreasing in Loudness.-Loudness

uniformly continued

CHAP. XI.

Monotone.-No Monotone, musically speaking,
exists in Spoken Language.-Errors of Au-

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thors concerning Monotone.-Speaking and

Singing contrasted. Remarks on Recitative 142

CHAP. XII.

Monosyllables.-Their Pliability in Lan-

guage.-How Syllables differ from one ano-

ther. Their Distinctions. FORTY-THREE

diversities.-Exercises.—On Political Con-

stitutions. -Family-Pride. - Generosity.-

Bounty of Nature.-On Religion.—The Ac-

complished Preacher.-Advantages of High

Titles.The Female Tongue

CHAP. XIII.

Proper application of Prosodial names of Greek

and Latin Feet to English words.-Mode of

measuring English Verse with Artificial Pro-

sody, contrasted with the mode of measuring

it with Musical Cadences.-Errors of English

Prosodians,

CHAP. XIV.

General Rules for Accents inadequate to

direct the melody, either of a sentence in

prose, or a passage of poetry.-Examples:

A sentence from Addison, where Mr Walker's

Rule directs only to one accent or inflexion,

while the full Melody requires ninety-three

accents,

Three hundred and eighty-eight questions on

the foregoing Chapters,

CHAP. XV.

Examples on the Five Accidents of Language,

exhibiting the Meter, Rhythm, and Melody

of various kinds of Verse.

Friendship: Set to the Music of Speech,

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The Dream: Set to the Music of Speech,

252

The Slave's Complaint,

The Soldier's Dream,

The Sound Critic,

264

Beauty,

Ditto,

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The Contented Miller,

266

Infancy,

270

A Thunder Storm,

271

The Swollen Torrent,

274

The death of Mozart,

ib,

The Dying Christian to his Soul: Set to the

The Passions, an Ode: Set to the Music of

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Alexander's Feast: Set to the Music of Speech, 299