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VOCAL CULTURE.

A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY EXERCISES FOR THE
CULTIVATION OF THE VOICE
IN ELOCUTION.

FOUNDED UPON DR. JAMES RUSH'S "PHILOSOPHY OF
THE HUMAN VOICE," AND THE SYSTEM OF
VOCAL GYMNASTICS INTRODUCED

BY MR. JAMES E. MURDOCH.

COMPILED BY

WILLIAM RUSSELL, 17-¡× ̈

AUTHOR OF "LESSONS IN ENUNCIATION." ETC.

REEDITED BY

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REV. FRANCIS T. RUSSELL, M. A. 1923

PORMERLY PROFESSOR OF ORATORY AT TRINITY AND HOBART COLLEGES.

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

AND FORMER ESTEEMED ASSOCIATE OF THE ORIGINAL COMPILER OF THIS VOLUME

PREFACE.

"THE design of the exercises presented in this manual is to furnish the groundwork of practical elocution, and whatever explanations are needed for the training of the organs and the cultivation of the voice. The system of instruction adopted in the present volume is founded on Dr. Rush's treatise, The Philosophy of the Human Voice,' and is designed as a practical synopsis of that work, with the addition of copious examples and exercises, selected for the purpose of facilitating the application of theory to practice. We hope, however, that the use of this manual will induce students and teachers to consult, for themselves, that invaluable source of instruction, for an ample and complete statement of the theory of vocal culture, in connection with an exact analysis of the vocal functions.

"The exercises embodied in the following pages are designed equally for the assistance of two classes of students,

at very different stages of progress in general education, but requiring, alike, the benefit of a thorough-going course of practice in elocution: young learners, whose habits of utterance are, as yet, forming; and adults, whose professional duties involve the exercise of public speaking. To the former, this manual will furnish the materials for a progressive cultivation and development of the vocal or gans for the useful purposes of education, and as a grace

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