You often find bisyllabic Italian words on a single note, and the singer has to know to divide the note in 2.
John
Seldom true. The usual practice is to diphthongize the collection of vowels, or to suppress one of them.
Consider this, from the vaudeville at the end of Don Giovanni:
Questo e il fin di chi fa mal
Mozart asks the singers to sing "-o e il" on a single note. The note is a long one, but you will never hear a singer divide it in three; rather, it usually comes out "Quest' e 'l fin" or "Questw'il fin"
-- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press
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