VOICE CULTURE AND ELOCUTION. BY WM. T. ROSS, A. M. "True Art is to Conceal Art." PROPERTY OF NEW YORK: THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO. SAN FRANCISCO: PAYOT, UPHAM & CO. 1890. -PRAMATIC ART DEPT... COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY WM. T. ROSS. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY WM. T. ROSS. COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY WM. T. ROSS. COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY WM. T. ROSS. Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York. PREFACE. 775 R827 1890 VOICE CULTURE AND ELOCUTION is a text-book combining in a practical form the following features: 1. Clear and concise statements and explanations of principles; 2. Explicit and full directions for exercise under the rules; and 3. A liberal supply of carefully selected sentences and paragraphs for study and practice. The exercises in Calisthenics and in Gesture will be found ample for physical culture, and for the development of ease, grace and versatility in gesture. The chapter on the Organs of Speech, with the accompanying illustrative cuts, may be made valuable as an auxiliary to the mechanics of elocution. The pages devoted specially to Voice Culture contain many valuable hints and exercises for the development of clearness, quality, compass, volume, strength, resonancy, flexibility and control of voice, and will be found as valuable to the student of Singing as to the student of Elocution. Articulation receives the attention its importance merits, and the exercises and directions are particularly full and explicit. Under the head of Modulation and Expression, the arrangement of topics is made as logical as is possible with a subject that covers so much ground, and in M271273 which the subdivisions are so interdependent. The sentences and paragraphs designed for the exemplifi- cation of rules and principles have been selected as much for their literary worth, as for their adaptation to the purposes of illustration. Though not a large collection, a marked feature of the book is the choice list of Selections for parlor and public recitals. Many of the pieces are new and of the highest order of merit. While VOICE CULTURE AND ELOCUTION is particularly adapted to the work in Schools of Elocution, and is specially arranged for use as a text-book in the Higher Schools and Colleges, its explicit directions make it equally valuable as a guide for self-instruction. An important feature of the book is the progressive arrangement of its lessons, adapting it to the needs of pupils of different grades. An Author's edition--published in 1886—was so favorably received by teachers of elocution and other educators, that a second edition was imperatively demanded. The present book is the result of a most careful revision of the former work, after the experience of actual use in the class-room, and is besides enlarged and otherwise improved. Among the new features will be found the following: 1. Plates illustrating the Organs of Speech; 2. Additional exercises and illustrative "cuts" in Voice Culture; 3. Authority references that will enable the student to learn the "context" of the passages quoted; 4. A list of the Emotions and Passions of the mind, with an appropriate sentence or paragraph for the exemplification of each; 5. A more carefully edited list of Selections, com- prising among their number several new and rare 6. In addition to the full Table of Contents, a com- plete Index to the longer quotations, and to the selec- tions for readings and recitations. It has been the aim of the author to embody in this work the course of instruction which has resulted from an experience of more than twenty-five years in the profession,—a course that has stood the test of practi- To his early instructors-among them distinguished voice-culturists and teachers of elocution-the author would gratefully acknowledge his obligations. In the hands of the intelligent student and the faith- ful teacher, it is confidently believed that this text- book will be a valuable aid toward the acquisition of Besides original copyrighted selections, permission TO HIS PUPILS, and to all others interested in the SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., 1887. W. T. R. |