8 " Whether Music is necessary to the Orator, — 



played on the piano-forte, and sung by my Associate. The 

 Speaker followed, for half a dozen times, the example ; and 

 having possessed himself, in a suitable degree, of the spirit of the 

 piece, he returned to the recital — and manifestly executed the pas- 

 sage in a stvle much superior to that of his original performance. 



Passage, from^'Athalia," as composed hy Handel; exactly 

 copied from Dr. Burney's History of Music. 



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lint as the young bar-ba-rian I ca - ress'd, he plung'd a dag-ger 

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deep with-in my breast : 



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pel ; — 1 shrick'd, — I 



faint - ed,- 



-and— I fell. 



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Neither the preceding harmony, nor the relative duration of 

 the notes was attempted by the Speaker, — the former being al- 

 together out of the question, and the latter as inappropriate, iu 

 many instances, for oratory, as art could have devised. The in- 

 tervals, therefore, were tlie object of the experiment ; and to 

 these only must be attributed that satisfactory result which I have 

 just represented. 



How far the genius of the original has been carried into lan- 

 guage will appear from the subjoined copy of the recitation, as 

 noted down by my Associate. The situation of " dagger" with 

 respect to *' plunged," as expressed by Handel, indicates thea- 

 trical rant— not the chaste delivery of an orator ; but whether the 

 finish, as executed by the Speaker, is or is not superior to that 

 of the original if applied to speech, the musical world may de- 

 cide. It virtually contains but two vltimately falling syllables, 

 in consequence of the pause or rest by which the antepenultimate 

 word " and" is succeeded. 



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