86 & Whether Music is necessary to the Orator ?” 
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Ee A Sa Pee eee 
Bou An)* Ek 6u 8) ra mpw ra o ac rH THY © pi cay TE 
A tpis Ons te &vak av Bpdv xds Si os A yA Asus. F 
[The relative duration of the foregoing notes might have been 
accurately expressed by our crotchet, dotted quaver, and quaver: 
but had these been introduced, almost every musician would form 
such Larring associations by viewing them, as to incapacitate him 
for the execution. For this reason, separate representations of 
the quantity and notes have been preferred. | 
[To be continued. | 
* This parenthesis was delivered, and with superior effect, in somewhat 
slower time than the general subject. And why should it not? Is it reason- 
able that a clause, in itself more solemn than the previous or succeeding 
one, should be accelerated, and consequently delivered with comparative 
levity, because it is parenthetical ? 
I had some time since the satisfaction of hearing a parenthesis of the 
XVth Chapter of Paul’s first Epistle to the Corinthians so recited; and shall 
never forget the awful impression. The whole passage, which was rather 
clerically than theatrically spoken, proceeded thus— 
“ In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—at the last trump—[these 
latter clauses in an ascending climax, the dast with comparative forte] ( for 
the trumpet SHALL SOUND)—[this parenthesis, for such it is in the original 
Greek though not in our English version, was deep, SLOW and swelling, 
followed by a considerable pause |—the dead shall be raised—[a pause some- 
what shorter than the former |—the DEAD—[this word was thus iterated by 
the reciter] shall be raised INCORRUPTIBLE | the second syllable “ cor” was 
considerably opened|—and WE [i.e. such of us as shall be found living on 
earth at this day] shall bé cuancep.” [The word “changed” pronounced 
as one syllable, so as to close the sentence with a sufficiently good anapest, 
whose energy and comparative rapidity gave a most powerful effect to the 
succeeding words “ O death,” &e. which in this place were so introduced 
by the reciter.] 
These were the prominent features of this sublime passage : but whether 
the reading (as we term it) is conformable with the Apostle’s meaning I 
shall not say ;—I relate merely what I heard. 
+ I had nearly omitted to observe, that the slides within the above pas- 
sage, although designated by our usual slurs, are yct continuous. Distinct 
intervals must not be struck, 
[In January Number, page 31, at the bottom, for Solemnization read 
Solmization. | 
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