Dear Tomoko,
Try GoogleTranslate. Put your fraze in the space on the left, choose a language
you think it is in, and press the little speaker underneath. Then keep changing
languages until you think it rhymes best with ‘Ave María’. Stupid but works ;)
Jerzy
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> On 23 Apr 2017, at 17:02, lutenist.mumin.koide gmail
> <lutenist.mumin.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear lute-list,
>
> Could anyone help me clarify pronunciation of "Vivat Eliza" in Dowland's
> composition
> to Sir. Henry Lee's poem "Time's Eldest Son"?
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> I thought it could be " viːvæt ("Vivat" read in ecclesiastical Latin?) and "
> əiːzə" (with this pronunciation it rhymes with "Ave Maria" ) though many sang
> it " vaɪvæt əlάɪzə" for which I couldn't find any reason...
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> Tomoko
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