84 “Whether Music is necessary to the Orator,— 
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Osmvoirs Te.meo1s (Atos O'ereAcseTo PovAn) 5 
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RE 0yby, te mpwra diacrytyy. spicavte, 
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Arpeidys Te, ayak avdowy; .xandios AysAacus. 
Having thus circumstantially set down, as well as could be as- 
certained, the exact quantity in which this beautiful exordium 
was delivered by the Speaker, 1 could willingly indulge the reader 
with an equally exact notation of the intervals : but in truth, the 
modulating habits of the Speaker, although wonderfully improved 
by his muscular exercise, were yet, at this period, so very un- 
chaste, ranting even in ocfaves, that ] deemed it an inexpedient 
task; especially as his ear, notwithstanding his improvement, was 
still too incorrect to enable him to retrace any given number of his 
own intervals with sufficient accuracy for the purpose. However, 
as a desirable appendage to the foregoing representation of guan- 
tity, I shall anticipate my intended subject by the notation of 
those interyals in which this truly majestic passage was after- 
wards delivered. And as this passage so set, shall terminate my 
letter, I have to request of the intelligent reader, especially if a 
musical amateur, that he may not too hastily condemn either the 
apparent limitation of the measure, or the apparent limitation of 
the intervals. Musicians,—and, without any meditated offence, 
musicians perhaps equally scientific as the reader himself,—have 
wondered at the effect ; nor did they previously believe it possi- 
ble that so much sublimity, and at the same time so considerable 
a portion of melody, could be realized by language. 
Notes or Intonations+ of the SpEaKER in delivering the aforesaid 
Exordium. 
{The flats and sharps within this passage govern no more than the 
immediately succeeding note or notes, upon the same line or 
space, which are found uncontradictedt. The very minute 
slide 
* The various changes of key within this exordium (for keys it undoubt- 
edly has, although not regularly musical nor always definable,) must interest 
the scientific musician. I entertained an opinion in the early part of this 
work, that speech without sing-song was at al/ times destitute of key, but 
now find myself mistaken. The analysis of this setting must remove all 
doubts upon the subject. 
+ The next succeeding note of any other name [or letter} is heid equiva. 
lent 
