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XXXIX. On the Question “Whether Music is necessary to the 
Orator,—to what Extent, and how most readily attainable 2” 
By Henry Upineton, Esq. 
[Continued from p. 168.} 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
Blair’s Hill, Cork, Sept. 16, 1818. 
Sir, — You will no doubt perceive by the general tenor of my 
papers, but more especially by the tenor of my last, that I have 
aimed at little more than a comprehensive outline of my sub- 
ject; and have therefore left to the good sense and discernment 
of my readers the supplying of several deficiencies which my dis- 
inclination for detail has unavoidably occasioned. Thus for ex- 
ample, in place of chiefly ascribing to the successively descending 
intervals with which our music abounds—the propensity of our 
public readers and_orators to sink inaudibly through the scale at 
the termination of their periods; I might also have adduced the 
wideness of interval, extent of scale, and usually inappropriate 
modulation when applied to speech, with which our songs and 
other musical productions so frequently conclude. In speaking 
too of the rhetorical cadence, 1 might have added that in several 
eases (especially when not preceded by a pause) this cadence is 
less distinctively marked than in others. I might also have qua- 
lified my assertion that ‘ the ultimate falling syllables of an an- 
cient period could never have exceeded two,”’ by stating the pro- 
bable exception in the Roman language, of a terminating mono- 
syllable when preceded by a word of three or more syllables 
whose accent is seated on the antepenult: but, as I] have already 
said, these and:several other matters of detail have been inten- 
tionally left to the good sense and discernment of the reader. 
To proceed then with my inquiry. A taste manifestly vicious 
in the extreme having for some time publicly appeared among 
the propagators of novelty in this kingdom, who in addition to 
the hideous extension of certain syllables, and the inarticulate 
crowding of others—would fain violate all the chasteness of lan- 
guage by the introduction of a periodical thump, the necessary 
consequence of executing any passage by the beat of time, con- 
formably to our present mode of barring *; my attention was, if 
possible, more carefully directed to the analysis of this than of 
any other topic. Not satisfied therefore with the coinciding opi- 
: nion 
* The introducers of this borring system «are the real or pretended ad- 
mirers of “Prosodiu Rationalis,” whose anti-oratorical author, Joshua Steele, 
would extend our ordinary speaking scale to an octave and a half; and 
the duration of our syllables to the monstrous ratio of eight to one—while, 
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