Chapter 15

THE ELEMENTS OF SPEECH AND SONG.

The subject may be made dry or the reverse--Vowels, consonants, noise--The position of the lips and the shape of the mouth-cavity in sounding the various vowels--How to demonstrate that the mouth-cavity is a resonance-chamber--Practical considerations growing out of the above--Speaker, vocalist, and composer--Bearing of these facts on the learning of languages--Consonants as musical nuisances--Their great variation in pitch--Brücke's division of consonants--Tabulation of the same 218