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XXXVIII. On the Question“ Whether Music is necessary to the 
Orator,—to what Extent, and how most readily attainable 2’ 
By Henny Upineron, Esq. 
[Continued from p. 86.] 
; To Mr. Tilloch. 
Blair’s Hill, Cork, March 11, 1819. 
Sir, — Ix your late Journals for January and February I stated 
at considerable length the method which, at my suggestion, was 
adopted by the Speuker for the subversion of his original habits, 
and the substitution of superior habits in their stead. TI also 
stated in that paper, the very simple operations by which any 
‘gentleman may almost instantly acquire a sufficiency of music for 
oratorival purposes: it now therefore remains that I circumstan- 
tially relate what subsequent exercises—whether of actual reci- 
tation, of intervals, of time or forte—were deemed expedient for 
_ the Speaker, as the ground-work of his elocutionary proceeding. 
The passages with which I began this novel undertaking were, 
as already mentioned, the Exordiums of Virgil’s first Eclogue, of 
the Aneid, and of the Iliad. In these, as well as in the exordium 
of Ovid’s Metamorphoses which succeeded, both accent * and 
quantity were attempted in the prescribed manner; and the re- 
sult was highly beneficial. Passages from the Epithalamium on 
Helen, by Theocritus, then followed +; and in this hexameter 
* The circumfler was omitted by me in the Latin. My general method 
of classically accentuating this language will appear trom the Eclogue. The 
~ short and long guantity is known to every scholar. 
Tityre, ti patule récubans sib tésmine favi, 
Sylvéstrem ténui misam meditaris avéna; 
Nos patriz fines &t daicia linquimus frva, 
Nos patriam fagimus—ta, Vityre, léntus in Gmbra 
Formoésam resovare déces Amar¥ilida syivas. 
This accentuation, even when really executed, has no modern peculiarity. 
It is the universal language of the superior gentleman, not the loci! dialect 
of either Englisi, Scotch or Irishman. I notice this circumstance for the 
guidance of those ventlemen whose Opinions may unheedingly have been 
influenced by the “ Flemeuts of Elocution” or Rhetorical Grammar” of 
Mr. Walker. Indeed fiom the whole tenvi of these works which 1 -have 
perused much more carefully than they deserve, I feel persuaded that if he 
(Mr. W.) had been taken to'an lostrument, his car must have been found 
incapable of distinguishing the higher from the lower of ary two contiguous 
or nearly contiguous notes, as C from C sharp, or eveu trom D, or perhaps 
from E minor. Ie would certainly be well if all oratoriéal empirics were 
tried by some such test. Their capability of distinguishing slides should 
also be ascertained by the pitch-pipe—the stopper of which should, in such 
essay, be moved up and down very gradually. 
t The selections from this beautiful Epithalamiam were 
Ev won acm Yrdera down to dau butviiw 
‘Ourw bn wewila tok oe, suds nds. 
Xdigos GviuPe ...,,, war ben, 
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