This reminds me of an SATB arrangement I did of 'As Time Goes By' which started with the Basses 'You must remember thi..' (hold note) then the tenors 'Sa kiss is still a ki... (hold) then the altos 'Sa sigh is just a sigh.' Seemed to work really well. <g>
Gary Griffiths Sing Live -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D Lew Sent: Sun April 2004 22:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] syllabification On Apr 11, 2004, at 1:10 PM, John Howell wrote: > I should also point out that Mark's suggestion makes reading the words > much quicker and intuitive. But of course a singer isn't going to > actually pronounce them that way. Tacking the consonant onto the 2nd > syllable is good vocal practice: "may-keth," "lee-deth," > "re-stoh-reth," "pre-pa-rest." In other words, the rules are > different for printing (to make the word clear) and for singing (to > make the words clear!). We've been through this before. Of course the singer is going to pronounce the consonant at the beginning of the next note -- that's one of the first things any choral singer is taught -- but it doesn't follow that every consonant should be printed after the hyphen. If you follow that reasoning to its logical conclusion you'd end up with absurdities like "ha-llo-wed", "ki-ngdom", "te-mpta-tion", etc. (Lord's Prayer on my mind this morning...). If you're making a pedagogical score for a class, maybe that makes sense, but for normal publishing it's just not done. There's also the matter of final consonants on a one-syllable word, which good vocal practice will have the singer tack onto the beginning of the next word. Are you going to print it that way, too? "O - n'ea -rth'a - s' i- t'i - s'i -n'hea-ven". mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
