The correct answer is: whatever the choral director says. This is so the choral sound is unified. Otherwise you get mushy vowels. Remember, there are several ways to pronounce Latin. Your Latin teacher may use classical Latin: pahkem. Church Latin is Italianate: PAH-chame. German Latin (Haydn DID speak German) is potsem. You all have to agree.
Herb Foster --- Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're singing Haydn's 3rd Mass and since there are no horn parts I get to > sing. But a question has come up regarding the pronounciation of a word > often repeated in the piece. If it's the same as Italian which in this case > I thought it was, the Latin word 'pacem' is pronounced using English > phonetics 'pah-chame' --- but I'm hearing it's not from a Latin teacher in > the group...instead she says in Latin it's 'pah-chem'. Which is right? > Thanks, Jim > > _______________________________________________ > post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/herb_foster%40yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
