Lowell. 1836.

OF

THE HUMAN VOICE:

EMBRACING ITS

PHYSIOLOGICAL HISTORY;

TOGETHER WITH A

SYSTEM OF PRINCIPLES,

BY WHICH

CRITICISM IN THE ART OF ELOCUTION

MAY BE RENDERED INTELLIGIBLE,

AND

INSTRUCTION, DEFINITE AND COMPREHENSIVE.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A BRIEF ANALYSIS

OF

Song and Recitative,

BY JAMES RUSH, M. D.

SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.

PHILADELPHIA:

GRIGG & ELLIOTT, 9 NORTH FOURTH STREET.
1833.

BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY

IN THE

FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY
UBRARY OF VAEDICINE

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by JAMES RUSH, M. D., in the clerk's office of the District Court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Henry R. Dallin 137414

Printed by J. Crissy & G. Goodman, 4, Minor street.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

13

INTRODUCTION,

SECTION I.

Of the General Divisions of Vocal Sound, with a more

particular account of its Pitch,

31

II.

Of the Radical and Vanishing movement of the

Voice; and its different forms in Speech, Song and

Recitative,

44

III.

Of the Elementary Sounds of the English Language;

with their relations to the Radical and Vanishing

movement,

52

IV.

V.

Of the Influence of the Concrete Movement, in the

production of the various phenomena of Syllables,

Of the Causative Mechanism of the Voice, in relation

to its different Qualities,

VI.

Of the Melody of Speech; together with an inquiry

how far the terms Key and Modulation are appli-