MUSIC,

OR

MELODY AND RHYTHMUS

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE; ***

IN WHICH ARE EXPLAINED, AND APPLIED TO THEIR PROPER
PURPOSES, ON PRINCIPLES NEW IN THIS COUNTRY,

THE

FIVE ACCIDENTS OF SPEECH, VIZ.
ACCENT, QUANTITY, EMPHASIS, PAUSE, AND FORCE, OR QUALITY OF
SOUND, ILLUSTRATED WITH SYMBOLICAL MARKS,

AND A

MUSICAL NOTATION:

By which are Exhibited, and may be perpetuated,

The True Cadence, Metre, and Rhythmus of the English Language; the
Rational mode of Scanning Poetry by Cadences as it ought to be
Read, and not by the Rules of Prosody; the Tune
and Time of Composition, and the
Correct manner of Reading
and Speaking.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

Dutlines of Gesture,

AND A SELECTION OF PIECES IN VERSE AND PROSE.

SECOND EDITION.

BY THE REV. JAMES CHAPMAN,

""
AUTHOR OF THE ORATOR," AND

TEACHER OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ELOCUTION, EDINBURGH.

Est autem in dicendo etiam quidam cantus. CIC. ORAT.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by Michael Anderson,

FOR MACREDIE, SKELLY, AND CO., 52, PRINCE'S STREET; J. BRASH AND
CO, GLASGOW; LONGMAN AND CO. AND T. AND G•

UNDERWOOD, LONDON,

1819.