At 1:08 PM 10/16/03, d. collins wrote:
I'm also wondering if the rules are the same for a regular printed text and for vocal music. In Latin, for instance, one sees in sacred music divisions that don't correspond to normal "syllables". (e.g. no-stra rather than nos-tra).
In Italian there's no need to make the rules for vocal music different from the rules for regular printed text, because Italian already divides in a way compatible with singing (ie, before a consonant cluster, with exceptions). Latin divides mostly between consonant pairs, including those beginning with "s". Many music editors amend the Latin rules to divide before an "s".
mdl
The whole point--which nobody has actually stated, I think--is that every language has its own rules for hyphenation, and applying rules from English, or Latin, or any other language simply isn't valid. And of course all rules have exceptions. Do not dictionaries in other languages than English give syllable breaks for specific words?
John
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