On Sat, Mar 18, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Dear Stewart,
>
> To be honest I don't know what edition our director got this from.
_Oxford Book of English Madrigals_ anthologises it.
Dont forget the second stanza "Oh were it july all the Year..."
Not sure where one finds the additional text,
Katherine wrote:
>
>On Elizabethan pronunciation:
>([ai:] is, more or less, the sound we usually make at
>the end of 'July'; [i:] that at the end of 'truly'.)
[SNIP]
>Since there no rhyme in question in 'July in her eyes
>hath place', it seems perverse to obscure the meaning
>by using an unfamili
On Elizabethan pronunciation:
([ai:] is, more or less, the sound we usually make at
the end of 'July'; [i:] that at the end of 'truly'.)
"Final long i is a problem. Rhymes from the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries would
suggest both [i:] and [ai:] were possible (he/harmony
as well as
Dear Stewart,
To be honest I don't know what edition our director got this from.
He's transcribed his score into a music program and printed it out in
larger type without all the incidental comments of the publisher
and/or composer and that's what we're singing from. He mentioned the
July/trul
