The Music, or Melody and Rhythmus of the English Language

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Excerpt from The Music, or 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 Symbolic Marks, and a Musical Notation The following Synopsis of the Music, or Melody and Rhythmus of Language, is published principally with the view of facilitating the improvement of the author's pupils. A regularly digested plan, as much simplified as possible, is indispensable, in order, successfully, to communicate instructions to the young. On the present system no such plan has appeared. Not only from the minuteness and peculiar accuracy and attention, which this mode of teaching requires, but especially from the misapplication of many of the Prosodial and Elocutionary terms made use of here, as employed by our Commentators, Prosodians and Grammarians, and their ignorance of others, notwithstanding all that has been written on the subject for many centuries, the following pages became still more necessary. This system is taken from Mr Steele's Prosodia Rationalis, a work of great merit and ingenuity. I am convinced that if this book had been well understood, by teachers at least, it would not have been so long neglected, because, when comprehended, it must carry conviction along with it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.