io what Exleiil, and how most readily aliaiuaMer 459 

 of a compact battalion; and so decided too in its character, 

 that chaige its time or measure as we please .t ,s almos impos- 

 sible todfsguise it; for ahhough we should degrade it to xery 

 pearly the level of a dance, as thus, 



J_i/ ~ g^ — "^! — g 



jfe — g|irig~ } Q- — ai— p^^:^ 



we shall, nevertheless, recognise the military lugk direptingour 

 movements in the field. . , . 



Evident as it may seem to the intelligent reader that witlm 

 the diapevie every desirable speaking tone is to be found ; yet 1 

 am greatly apprehensive, that accmsidevable portion of our rav- 

 Tff orator's will inveigh against every species of restriction, which 

 Sout understanding the term, they will call the "shackling of 

 nature." Assuredly, I can have no objection to allow the pas- 

 sions a decent sway': anger, for instance, the most irregular of 

 all, may CNuress the majority of its tones on the higher keys- 

 and be'as little systematic as it pleases: but 1 am certainly ot 

 opinion, that a judicious speaker will represent that passion t 

 rather bv vehemence and limited intonation, than by the mon- 

 ? ous transition of barbarian octaves. The ecctre,nes it is tme 

 may now and then be carried to the extent of this interval ; bu 

 Se reaching of those extremes, in the sawe member, or rather 

 dJ.se of a sentence, even by the interposition of other intervals, 

 should never be attempted. 



In vwsic itself, to speak no longer of oratory -of what supe- 

 rior melody is the diapevie susceptil)le, proceeding at the same 

 t n e by the smallest Ji our gradations 1 Almost all the profes- 

 sional'musicians wUh whom I have conversed, l^ave expi-essed 

 their astonishment at the analysis of our incomparable national 

 air " God save the King,=' which, for the gratification of the 

 amateur, 1 shall repeat. 



. The eleventh book of Quindlian's Institutes of the Orator (^J^Pj;;;:'"-}. 

 f -^ . vprv sensible remark upon this topic. " In famihar discourse 

 :T^t^Z::t^"^e vLe holds a%ertalnniedhun between the 

 Tones tha\ are fiat and sharp. In vehement passions it rises, in ™o ^t^^^- 

 .u 1 it falls ■ but hl-her or lower proportionately to the de-iee of eithe. 

 ^ t W repres n^ation may be called .•eU-re^lated ^n^en such^^^ 

 o«tn who preserves intelligibility and deeorum is authorised to exhito I 

 soeak not of that overwhelming passion called rage, which in actual life .o 

 rw.i^ntlv brutVi/es the herd of mankind. Neither do I speak of our the- 

 l^ritt rii" a to^. Ly certainly proceed somewhat further than the 

 " ^rr'v orator • and yet even the actor, in the very " whirlwind ot his passion 

 Slploy the o'ctave with caution, this interval being certiunly too u.rf., 

 both for modulation aud for toounand. 



j^nalysU 



