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["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside
["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P.. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside. Cincinatti: Gazette Office. 1836. Second Edition. A large broadside with a text on the principles of elocution, oration, and vocal music, illustrated with woodcuts showing gestures and facial expressions in acting and also including several shape-note tunes. Double folio broadside, mounted on linen, with twelve columns of text. With the ownership signature of "James C. Madigan G'bg [Gettysburg?] College" on the verso of the linen backing, dated November 1838, and another partially lost ownership signature and date at the foot. Folded, with heavy wear and some losses at the edges and crease points. Despite these losses, still a visually striking item in good condition, with almost all the text and images intact. 36 x 24.5 inches (91 x 63 cm).

The work contains detailed instructions on the basic principles of elocution and vocal music. In the preface, Bronson describes the broadside as a "very much corrected and enlarged" second edition; the first edition was titled The self-taught reader, orator, and singer, or, The diatonic scale and illustrations of the principles of elocution and music (no copies of that edition are recorded in OCLC). After detailing the sounds of each letter of the alphabet, Bronson explains how to bring across the meaning of a text through judicious emphasis and inflection, and gives many example sentences (showing emphasis with italics, capitals, or diacritics) which are to be practiced while standing in front of the broadside. A shorter section on music describes singing and speaking as related skills: "The same strength, distinctness, smoothness, and flexibility which singing requires and promotes, are subservient to the purposes of elocution." An appendix in the last column is devoted to ventriloquism, with a detailed description of Bronson's performance before his students: behind a screen, he creates an amusing and array of different voices and sound effects, with the impression that they come from different directions. The numerous border cuts at the sides illustrate the classic oratorical poses; further cuts of facial expressions representing the various passions surround a chart explaining the principles of solfege and shape note notation. A selection of shape-note tunes in two parts comprises the lower border. 

A fascinating record of the nineteenth-century view of singing, rhetoric, elocution, and gesture as linked disciplines, as well as an early mention of ventriloquism, a form of entertainment which gained popularity through the nineteenth century (and at this point, did not necessarily refer to speaking with a doll or puppet.)

WorldCat records three broadside copies, one at Stanford; the Yale library holds a pamphlet of clippings of the same content pasted into a scrapbook. Imprints 36378 locates a copy at NYPL; Morgan, Ohio 3002.

["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside

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["Elocution and Music"] Bronson, C. P.. "Elocution and Music" - Large Nineteenth-Century American Broadside. Cincinatti: Gazette Office. 1836. Second Edition. A large broadside with a text on the principles of elocution, oration, and vocal music, illustrated with woodcuts showing gestures and facial expressions in acting and also including several shape-note tunes. Double folio broadside, mounted on linen, with twelve columns of text. With the ownership signature of "James C. Madigan G'bg [Gettysburg?] College" on the verso of the linen backing, dated November 1838, and another partially lost ownership signature and date at the foot. Folded, with heavy wear and some losses at the edges and crease points. Despite these losses, still a visually striking item in good condition, with almost all the text and images intact. 36 x 24.5 inches (91 x 63 cm).

The work contains detailed instructions on the basic principles of elocution and vocal music. In the preface, Bronson describes the broadside as a "very much corrected and enlarged" second edition; the first edition was titled The self-taught reader, orator, and singer, or, The diatonic scale and illustrations of the principles of elocution and music (no copies of that edition are recorded in OCLC). After detailing the sounds of each letter of the alphabet, Bronson explains how to bring across the meaning of a text through judicious emphasis and inflection, and gives many example sentences (showing emphasis with italics, capitals, or diacritics) which are to be practiced while standing in front of the broadside. A shorter section on music describes singing and speaking as related skills: "The same strength, distinctness, smoothness, and flexibility which singing requires and promotes, are subservient to the purposes of elocution." An appendix in the last column is devoted to ventriloquism, with a detailed description of Bronson's performance before his students: behind a screen, he creates an amusing and array of different voices and sound effects, with the impression that they come from different directions. The numerous border cuts at the sides illustrate the classic oratorical poses; further cuts of facial expressions representing the various passions surround a chart explaining the principles of solfege and shape note notation. A selection of shape-note tunes in two parts comprises the lower border. 

A fascinating record of the nineteenth-century view of singing, rhetoric, elocution, and gesture as linked disciplines, as well as an early mention of ventriloquism, a form of entertainment which gained popularity through the nineteenth century (and at this point, did not necessarily refer to speaking with a doll or puppet.)

WorldCat records three broadside copies, one at Stanford; the Yale library holds a pamphlet of clippings of the same content pasted into a scrapbook. Imprints 36378 locates a copy at NYPL; Morgan, Ohio 3002.

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