To the Rev? John Thansar From the Auther

THE

MUSIC,

OR

MELODY AND RHYTHMUS

OF

LANGUAGE,

&c. &c &c.

MUSIC,

QR

MELODY AND RHYTHMUS

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE;

IN WHICH ARE EXPLAINED, AND APPLIED TO THEIR PROPER purposes, ON PRINCIPLES NEW IN THIS COUNTRY,

THE

FIVE ACCIDENTS OF SPEECH, viz.

ACCENT, QUANTITY, EMPHASIS, PAUSE, AND FORCE, OR QUALITY OF SOUND, ILLUSTRATED WITH SYMBOLICAL MARKS,

AND A

MUSICAL NOTATION:

By which are Exhibited, and may be perpetuated,

The True Cadence, Metre, and Rhythmus of the English Language; the
Rational mode of Scanning Poetry by Cadences as it ought to be
Read, and not by the Rules of Prosody; the Tune
and Time of Composition, and the
Correct manner of Reading

and Speaking.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

Dutlines of Gesture,

AND A SELECTION OF PIECES IN VERSE AND PROSE.

Second EDITION.

BY THE REV. JAMES CHAPMAN,

66

AUTHOR OF THE ORATOR," AND

TEACHER OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ELOCUTION, EDINBURGH.

Est autem in dicendo etiam quidam cantus. CIC. ORAT.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by Michael Anderson,

FOR MACREDIE, SKELLY, AND CO., 52, PRINCE'S STREET ; J. BRASH AND CO. GLASGOW; LONGMAN AND CO. AND T. AND G⚫

UNDERWOOD, LONDON,

1819.

Music, its Division into Sound and Measure, or Melody

...

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and Rhythmus,

Definition of Music when applied to Song, and to Speech,

Division of the Organs of Speech, into Vocal and Enunciative, ib.

Accurate knowledge of these, Indispensable to the correct

teaching of the art of Reading and Speaking,

...

The Organs, collectively, considered as a Musical Instru-

ib.

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Accentual Slides, among the Greeks, posterior to the days