242 © Whether Music is necessary to the Orator,— 
nion of my assocraTE, I solicited the conjoint operation and 
opinion of several amateurs and professional musicians; by all of 
whom the following observations were unhesitatingly made. 
Examination of Toe SPEAKER continued. 
OF "TIME. 
Observation \st.—Alterations of the general movement were 
almost perpetual, every perceptible change of emotion producing, 
though even in the same clause, a corresponding acceleration or re- 
tardation of delivery; while even in the most regular clause, no ap- 
preciable Jar whatever, with the exception of an occasional ap- 
proximation to our 2 or 2, could be said in any way to exist. 
Nevertheless, a ériple¢ similar to that in “* God save the King ” 
did now and then attract our attention. 
Observation 2d.—Combinations more or less independent of 
our usual barring arrangement—and whose effect was at times 
peculiarly expressive—were continually perceived. But on these 
combinations we considered ourselves too inexperienced to re- 
port. 
Observation 3d.—Emphatical words, the vowel of whose em- 
phatic syllabie was long by nature [this term is used for perspi- 
cuity], were rather frequently marked by a moderate extension 
of those vowels; while in the case of short vowels, similarly cir- 
cumstanced, scarcely any extension of these, at any time took 
place: nevertheless, in both instances a certain extension of 
prolongable consonants [not mutes] was occasionally obvious. 
Remarks on the preceding Observations. 
The more attentively we consider the present barring system 
in its application to speech, the more numerous are the objections 
to its adoption. Besides that periodical thump which all time- 
even in recitative, Handel is satisfied with four to one, and for the most 
part with ha/f this ratio, Let us take the very first example which oceurs 
in Steele’s book, as a specimen of his taste, and conception of rhythmus. 
[fn executing this passage let the experimenter take care that he not only 
beats the time, but allots the assigned duration to every individual 
.  sytlable.] 
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Oh {happi-ness our being’s | end and 
2 Ms eh iy led ie’ 4 4 | 4 4 6 Q 
Czsar’s remark on the sing-song speaker may be justly applied to Mr. 
Steele: If this be singing, it is singing very badly, Some trifling ballad 
may possibly present one or two accidental lines to which, if expression be 
not required, this time-beating process may somewhat closely be applied ; 
—but who would covet the execution at so grcat a sacrifice ? 
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