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VIII. 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 vol. lii. p. 409.] 
Blair’s Hill, Cork, Jan. 7, 1819. 
Sir, — Havine terminated the examination of the Speaker in 
your Magazine for December, and offered my opinion in that, 
as well as in the preceding numbers, on the apparent analogy 
between our modern music and the character of speech, I have 
now ultimately to present you with a narration of the different 
experiments that I made for the intended improvement of the 
Speaker, in the delivery of written language ;—which process, I 
have the pleasure to assure you, not only realized, to a certain 
extent, my wishes, but also added (and very considerably too) to 
the dignity and zmpressiveness of his ordinary conversation. 
Experience has every day shown us, that even the most easy 
and gracefui speakers in common iife, are frequently incapable of 
modulating any species of language, whether written or extem- 
poraneous, whose composition is much superior to that of their 
politer colloquy. The Speaker was similarly unfortunate. I 
essayed his capability with a few passages of the “ Spirit of Pa-. 
triotism” by Lord Bolingbroke. He studied them—pointed out 
the emphatical words, nay even felt the subject; and then re- 
peatedly attempted the delivery—but failed. With him, as with 
the generality of our orators who aim at dignity, a wearisome 
monotonous see-saw was substituted for that easy and expressive 
modulation which the passages required. Selections from our 
Church Service were then delivered ; and in these his modulation 
was more varied—but at the same time was altogether inappro- 
priate, and destitute of solemnity. What was to be done? Ea- 
periments were the object—and on these the solution of our ques- 
tion ** Whether music is necessary to the orator’’ was eventually 
to depend. 
The different experiments then to which I resorted shall con- 
stitute the subject of my present and following letter ; and al- 
though it will appear that I have led the Speaker, by my inex- 
perience in this novel walk, to one particularly ill-judged pro- 
ceeding {solfaying the entire octave]; yet as the candid declara- 
tion of my error may in all likelihood be attended with some ad- 
vantage to others, I acknowledge it without reserve. 
Solemnixation of the Octave. 
{Performed on the Piano Forte.} 
Do re mi fa sol la si do Do si la sol fa mi re do. 
