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Title: Delsarte System of Oratory

Author: Various

Release Date: April 29, 2004 [EBook #12200]

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DELSARTE SYSTEM OF ORATORY

1. The Complete Work of L'Abbe Delaumosne

2. The Complete Work of Mme. Angelique Arnaud

3. All the Literary Remains of Francois Delsarte
(Given in his own words)

4. The Lecture and Lessons Given by Mme. Marie
Geraldy (Delsarte's Daughter) in America

5. Articles by Alfred Giraudet, Francis A. Durivage,
and Hector Berlioz

Fourth Edition
New York
Edgar S. Werner
1893

Copyright
By Edgar S. Werner
1882, 1884, 1887, 1892

Contents.

Delaumosne On Delsarte.

Biographical Sketch
Preface

Part First.

Voice.

Chapter I.

Preliminary Ideas--Criterion of the Oratorical Art.

Chapter II. Of The Voice.

Organic Apparatus of the Voice--The Voice in Relation to
Compass--The Voice in Relation to Vowels--Practical Conclusions

Chapter III. The Voice in Relation to Intensity of Sound.

What is Understood by Intensity of Sound--Means of Augmenting the
Timbre of the Voice--Rules for Intensity of Sound

Chapter IV.

The Voice in Relation to Measure.

Of Slowness and Rapidity in Oratorical Delivery--Of Respiration and
Silence--Inflections--Rules of Inflection--Special Inflections

Part Second.

Gesture.

Chapter I. Of Gesture in General

Chapter II. Definition and Division of Gesture.

Gesture is the Direct Agent of the Heart--Gesture is the Interpreter
of Speech--Gesture is an Elliptical Language

Chapter III. Origin and Oratorical Value of Gesture

Chapter IV. The Laws of Gesture.

The Priority of Gesture to Speech--Retroaction--Opposition of
Agents--Number of Gestures--Duration of Gesture--The Rhythm of
Gesture--Importance of the Laws of Gesture

Chapter V. Of Gesture in Particular.

The Head--Movements of the head: The Normal State, The Eccentric
State, The Concentric