Representing Human Speech (intonation) A
page from Joshua Steele's pamphlet advancing the cause of the recording
and execution of human intonatation in speech, represented as a musical
stave with coding. The work, An essay towards establishing the
melody and measure of speech to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar
symbols, had characters cut by the printer Joseph Jackson, and
was published by Bowyer and Nichols in London in 1775, and was part of
Steele's larger campaign to advance the joint study of language and music.
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