The art of pronuntiation digested into two parts. Vox audienda, & vox videnda. In the first of which are set foorth the elements and seuerall parts of the voice: in the second are described diuers characters, by which euery part of the voice may be aptly known and seuerall distinguished. Very necessary as well thereby to know the naturall structure of the voice, as speedily to learne the exact touch of pronuntiation of any forraine language whatsoeuer. Newly inuented by Robert Robinson Londoner.
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- The art of pronuntiation digested into two parts. Vox audienda, & vox videnda. In the first of which are set foorth the elements and seuerall parts of the voice: in the second are described diuers characters, by which euery part of the voice may be aptly known and seuerall distinguished. Very necessary as well thereby to know the naturall structure of the voice, as speedily to learne the exact touch of pronuntiation of any forraine language whatsoeuer. Newly inuented by Robert Robinson Londoner.
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- Robinson, Robert, Londoner.
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- London :: Printed by Nicholas Okes,
- 1617.
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- English language -- Phonetics -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of pronuntiation digested into two parts. Vox audienda, & vox videnda. In the first of which are set foorth the elements and seuerall parts of the voice: in the second are described diuers characters, by which euery part of the voice may be aptly known and seuerall distinguished. Very necessary as well thereby to know the naturall structure of the voice, as speedily to learne the exact touch of pronuntiation of any forraine language whatsoeuer. Newly inuented by Robert Robinson Londoner." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10851.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To his Booke.
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A Preface declaring the great benefit of Speech and wri∣ting, and the order of this Treatise. - poem
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Vox Audienda, Or THE ELEMENTS OF MANSVoice. - What the Voice is.
- What a simple sound is?
- What a sound is, and of the efficient thereof.
- Of the efficient causes of this motion and restraint.
- Of the primary and spirituall cause of this motion and restraint.
- Of the instrumentall causes of this motion.
- Of the instrumentall causes of the restraint of this motion.
- How the diuersity of sounds vsed in mans voice happen.
- Of the generall parts of the sounds in mans voice so occasioned.
- Of the number of sounds of different quantity.
- Of two seuerall orders wherein these sounds are different in quantity.
- Of the place of framing of the sounds, different in quantity, and the cause of their different heights.
- Of the reason of their different measure of time.
- Of the number of sounds of different quality whereof the speech is framed.
- Of the framing of the speeche by the said sounds of different quality.
- What a syllable is.
- What a word is.
- What the speech is.
- Of the generall diuision of the simple sounds of different quality.
- Of the nature, place and office of the vitall sound.
- Of vowels, what they are and of their nature.
- Of the number of vowells.
- Of their different manner of framing.
- Of the generall framing of the short vowells.
- Of the generall framing of the long vowells.
- Of the number of places wherein the vowells are framed.
- Of the framing of the first short vowell.
- Of the framing of the first long vowell.
- Of the framing of the second short vowell.
- Of the second long vowell.
- Of the third short vowell.
- Of the third long vowell.
- Of the fourth short vowell.
- Of the fourth long vowell.
- Of the fift short vowell.
- Of the fift long vowell.
- Of Consonants. What are Consonants.
- Of the number of Consonants.
- Of the seuerall orders of framing of the consonants in the mouth.
- Of the particular number of each sort.
- Of the number of places wherein these thirteen consonants in the mouth are framed.
- Of the first place.
- Of the second place.
- Of the third place.
- What are mutes? of the order of their framing, and of their property.
- Of the semimutes.
- Of the greater obstricts.
- Of the lesser obstricts.
- Of the peculiar.
- Of the manner of framing, and of the nature of the consonant in the breast.
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Vox Videnda. Which is writing, or the Cha∣racters of Mans voice.- What is writing.
- Of the generall distinction and naming of the Characters of the voyce.
- Of the particular naming and di∣stinction of cliffes.
- Of the particular naming and distin∣ction of notes.
- Of the particular naming and distinction of letters.
- Of the order and seuerall formes of the characters for the parts of mans voice.
- Of the formes of the letters wherewith I haue noted the vowels accor∣ding to the order of their places.
- The scale of vowells.
- Of the formes of the letters which I haue obserued for the consonants in the mouth, according to the order of their places.
- Of the forme of the letter for the aspirate.
- Of the distinguishing of sillables.
- Of the manner of placing of the aspirate.
- Of Tones.
- Kinds of vtterance of each sillable.
- Of the figuring of the tones.
- Breue de voce poema Latinum in nouo ordine li∣terarum ante edocto, iuxta Anglicanam nostram pronuntiationem conscriptum.
- Idem poema in ordine literarum modò vsitato.
- Epilogus.