Elocution Simplified — 簡明な朗読法

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Elocution Simplified: With an Appendix on Lisping, Stammering, Stutte…

こうした例と同様に、話す際の声についても同じことが言えます。日常的な会話の目的であれば、発声の特別な訓練は必要ありません。

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1. 背筋を伸ばして立ちなさい！ 汝は神の ／ 姿と似姿を持っている。

2. 今や、うとうとする大地の上には、なお夜が支配している； ／山々や木陰の谷間、 ／ 険しい断崖やくぼんだ渓谷を、穏やかな眠りが包む。

2行目から6行目。テンポは速く、音域は高く、「sudden」「sparkle」「bicker」「hurry」「slip」

第四部 朗読法の心得この本のこれまでのページで練習と学習を重ねてきたなら、朗読法の基礎的な知識を身につけたことでしょう。

「若い朗読家にとっては便利なポケットサイズの良き相棒となり、一般の読者も暇な時間にこれを読んで大いに楽しむことができるでしょう。」

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least wear and tear. Yon must do the same with this machine, your bod…

2. Arms at Side. —Place your arms at the side, with

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3. Turn right and left.

It is not necessary to describe them at length: but, in bending right…

5. Puff and Pause. —Puff the breath as before, three

times, pausing about five or more seconds, holding the breath between…

3. Swelling Tones. —Assume standing position with

active chest, and' take full breath; then begin the vowel oo very sof…

3. Major Rising and Falling Inflections. —Practise

rising followed by falling, as oh, oh, ah, ah, awe. awe, &c,using lon…

3. Pure Quality. — Speak the long vowels in your codversational ton<e as pleasantly as you can, tossing the tone

lightly, as if speaking to some one across a large hall. Speak each v…

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vowel "ah " very shortly. You will notice that the voiceissues full, …

3. Slow Movement. — Use exercise as above, with very

slow movement of voice. In chanting, prolong each wordabout alike ; i…

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CONSONANTS OR ARTICULATIONS.Breath. Voice. Nasal, Place in Mouth. P a…

7. Holding Breath.

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p,b,m-ivh,w. Lips and Teeth

3. The scene had also its minstrels : the birds, those ministers and worshippers of Nature, were on the wing, filling the air with melody; while, like diligent little housewives,

they ransacked the forest and field for materials for their housekee…

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He fails alone who feebly creeps

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His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe a…

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" Revenge ! remember Limerick ! dash down the Sas- senagh !" Like lio…

6. All hail to our glorious ensign ! Courage to the heart,

and strength to the hand, to which in all time it shall beintrusted !…

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Hung in their spheres by fate, Which nothing mars ? Or are they guard…

2. Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake,

And hear a helpless orphan's tale ! Ah ! sure my looks must pity wake…

1. Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but

this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give apiece of …

2. Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell, with all your

feeble light

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Bob-o-]ink, bob-o-link,Spink, spank, spink

2. Now the laughing, jolly Spring began to show her buxom face in the bright morning. The buds began slowly

to expand their close winter folds, the dark and melancholywoods to a…

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VERY LOW PITCH.

2. How dark it is ! I cannot seem to see The faces of my flock. Is that the sea That murmurs so ? or is it weeping ? Hush,

My little children ! God so loved the world,He gave his Son : so love…

3. 'Tis midnight's holy hour; and silence now

Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er The still and pulseless world. …

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While the boatman listens, and ships his oar, To catch the music that…

1. Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

Rescue my castle before the hot dayBrightens to blue from its silver…

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With that he gave his able horse the head,And, bending forward, struc…

2. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,

Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshi…

3. My Father, God, lead on ! Calmly I follow where thy guiding hand

Directs my steps. I would not trembling stand,Though all before the w…

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White are his shoulders, and white his crest. Hear him call, in his m…

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Bide as ye would were your sisters and wives Cowering under their sca…

3. "Now for the fight! now for the cannon-peal!

Forward, through blood and toil and cloud and fire

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When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed m…

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The water's broke loose! it is chasing me on! "3. They strike! Hurra…

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O men with mothers and wives

5. Did ye not hear it? —No: 'twas but the wind,

Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. On with the dance ! let j…

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Of liberty the signet-seal, the one eternal sign,Be those united embl…

9. He called his child, —no voice replied;

He searched, with terror wild: Blood, blood, he found on every side, …

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Then passed away each stormy trace, And high resolve reigned like a …

28. And here and there a grayling,

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2. Orotund quality, with fulness and power, varying

middle and low pitch, moderate and quick movement,median and radical …

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Beneath that beggar's roof, lo ! Death doth keep his state. Enter, no…

'Twas so bold, that it feared not to play its joke

With the doctor's wig and the gentleman's cloak. Through the forest i…

3. " Now," said Wardle, " what say you to an hour on

the ice? We shall have plenty of time." " Capital! " said Mr. Benjami…

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A still contentment everywhere,That neither laughs nor grieves. A sha…

3. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods

More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the pen…

1. You speak like a boy, —like a boy who thinks the old gnarled oak can be twisted as easily as the young sapling.

Can I forget that I have been branded as an outlaw, stig- matized as …

. cern, with free force to do: the grand school- master is Practice." To make an artist of yourself in elo- cution requires much practice and much patience. As Longfellow says, "Art is long, and "time is fleeting;" and the

art of elocution is no exception to that truth. You must have health…

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You can convey emotion without a definite thought ; andthis is as bad…

, or as may be indicated by the gesture. When _ .. you recite, or speak extempore, you can add much - to the expression by look, gesture, and attitude.

twee. In natural expression the face will first light up, and showfee…

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