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The Elements and Principles of Vocal Expression in Lessons, with Exercises and Selections Systematically Arranged for Acquiring the Art of Reading and Speaking S. S. Hamill. 1 SCIENCE OF ELOCUTION . BY S. S. HAMILL . TESTIMONIALS.
The Elements and Principles of Vocal Expression in Lessons, with Exercises and Selections Systematically Arranged for Acquiring the Art of Reading and Speaking S. S. Hamill. 1 SCIENCE OF ELOCUTION . BY S. S. HAMILL . TESTIMONIALS.
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... ELOCUTION . BY S. S. HAMILL . TESTIMONIALS . From ANDREW D. WHITE , LL.D. , President of Cornell University , late Professor of History and English Literature , Michigan University . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , ANN ARBOR , Oct. 8 , 1860 ...
... ELOCUTION . BY S. S. HAMILL . TESTIMONIALS . From ANDREW D. WHITE , LL.D. , President of Cornell University , late Professor of History and English Literature , Michigan University . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , ANN ARBOR , Oct. 8 , 1860 ...
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... Elocution , Lancaster , Mass . , Author of Vocal Culture , Pulpit Elocution , etc. , etc. PROFESSOR HAMILL - DEAR SIR : Your favor of the ninth gave me the rare pleasure of perceiving that Dr. Rush's Philosophy of the Voice , as ...
... Elocution , Lancaster , Mass . , Author of Vocal Culture , Pulpit Elocution , etc. , etc. PROFESSOR HAMILL - DEAR SIR : Your favor of the ninth gave me the rare pleasure of perceiving that Dr. Rush's Philosophy of the Voice , as ...
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... Elocution as simple and easy as the art of music , mathematics , or language . PROVINCE OF THE ART . The Art of Elocution cultivates the voice , perfects the articulation , improves the respiration , gives ease and grace to position and ...
... Elocution as simple and easy as the art of music , mathematics , or language . PROVINCE OF THE ART . The Art of Elocution cultivates the voice , perfects the articulation , improves the respiration , gives ease and grace to position and ...
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... Elocution . It most happily com- bines the cultivation of the physical , the mental , and the moral powers . Physical Culture . ▾ The exercises in respiration , articulation , and vocal- ization strengthen the lungs , expand the chest ...
... Elocution . It most happily com- bines the cultivation of the physical , the mental , and the moral powers . Physical Culture . ▾ The exercises in respiration , articulation , and vocal- ization strengthen the lungs , expand the chest ...
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Advantages Aspirate Quality beautiful bells boot-black brave brow Circumflex Class Exercises Compound Stress cultivate Define DIAGRAM dreams Effusive and Expulsive Effusive Form elements Elocution Energetic Force EXAMPLE EXERCISES Combining Form EXERCISES Contrasting EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION Exercises in Breathing Exercises in Gesture Exercises in Position expression Expulsive and Explosive Expulsive Form eyes Falsetto fear Final Stress FORM-WHEN gray horse Guttural hand hath heard heart heaven High Pitch Illustration Impassioned Force Inflection Intermittent Stress Jennie McNeal LESSON life-boat Lochinvar look Low Pitch Median Stress Middle Pitch Moderate Force Moderate Movement mother o'er Oral Orotund Quality pale passions Pectoral Quality Pompey practice the following principle Pure Tone quality of voice Queen Radical Stress Rapid Movement Repeat scorn selection require sentences shout slave Slow Movement solemn soul sound speak stanza styles of thought Subdued Force sublimity sweet tears thee thou utterance vocal words
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