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Title: A system of practical elocution and rhetorical gesture; comprising all the elements of vocal delivery, both as a science and as an art;
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Weaver, J. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Elocution
Publisher: Philadelphia, Barrett and Jones, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eenthe points, 1, 2, 3, &c. are all equal, excepting those between3 and 4, and between 7 and 8, which are but half that of anyof the others. When the sounds of the scale are produced by drawing thebow, while the finger is held stationary for a moment, and thenskips on the different points marked 1,2, 3, 4, &c, we havethe notes or sounds made discretely, and are called discretesounds or notes, because they are separate and disjoined fromeach other, by having no intermediate pitch sounded. If, however, the finger is made to slide either upward ordownward during the motion of the bow, we will hear a mew- 94 CONCRETE PITCH. ino- sound, which, from the momemtary changes in ascent ordescent of pitch, preventing any apparent break in its course,is a continuous or moving sound, very different from that ofthe discrete sounds. This continuous sound is called a slide,because the sound is made to slide, as it were, from one pitchto another. It is also called a concrete* sound, because the
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^ A slide, a concrete, and the vanishing movement, are nearly synonymousterms; yet the concrete may imply the radical and vanish, or the whole move-ment of the voice, in the production of a note of speech. CONCRETE PITCH. 95 sound made by the movement of the finger, seems to grow outof that made before the finger moves, or out of that note fromwhich the concrete sets out or starts. The sound heard, when any of the 8 points of the string ispressed, and the bow drawn across it, is called a note. Thisnote must, however, be distinguished from a tone, which isthat portion of the concrete between two proximate notes dif-fering one degree in pitch. This is also called an interval of atone, or of a second. When the finger moves on the string from 1 to 2 on thediagram, and the bow at the same time drawn across, a risingslide, or concrete of a second is heard; if the finger movesfrom 2 to 1, a. falling concrete is produced ; if the finger movesfrom 1 to 3, a rising third is heard; if from 3 to

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