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PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 

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I. On the Question ^'Whether Music is necessary to theOrator,— 

 to what Extent, and how most readily attainable ?" By 

 Henry Upington, Esq. 



[Concluded from vol. liii. p. 253.] 



To Mr. Tilloch. 

 . Blair's Hill, Cork, May 15, 1819. 



Sir, — Althottgh I have not, in any one instance, from the 

 commencement of these papers, specifically mentioned as the sub- 

 ject of investigation — whether music, abstractedly considered, 

 was necessary to man in a state of nature ; or whether the cul- 

 tivation of music, to a certain extent, agreeably to that system 

 uniformly ]5ractised in modern Europe, was necessary to the im- 

 provement of a modern orator ; — yet the whole scope of my in- 

 quiry has abundantly manifested this latter as my intended topic. 



Allured, during the prosecution of my design, by a variety of 

 interesting objects, I have been insensibly conducted over a much 

 more extensive field than the generality of my readers may po- 

 sibly have desired. Not only modern but ancient melody has, in 

 some degree, been examined. A new method of calculating the 

 comparative concordance of our musical numbers has been sug- 

 gested. The genius of our polite delivery has been ascertained 

 by a series of experiments ; — and the oratorical utility of intro- 

 ducing the slide, of acquiring the minor third and fourth, and of 

 speaking within the limits of the Diapente, has been frequently 

 represented. Our complicated harmony, too, has been explored; 

 and however gratifying it may prove to the modern ear, 1 have 

 particularly guarded tlie Orator against it*, as tending not only 

 to vitiate his taste by the arrangement of its intervals, but also 

 to create an habitual disrelish for the simpler beauties of nature, 

 and consecpiently for the appropriate cultivation of the melody of 

 /an^'?i fli,'^, upon vvhich his influence over all clasiscsof mankind must 



• See Appendix, on Harmony. 



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