Alexander Voinov wrote:
Hi Christian,
Christian Mondrup wrote:
PS I strongly recommend omitting all melismatic slurs in music like
this. The inter-syllable dashes and end syllable prolongation lines of
the lyrics are fully sufficient for notating melismas.
How could I convince our choir in this? It seems that it's a wide-spread
standard to put slurs in these cases.
You're perfectly right. Nevertheless I recommend omitting melismatic
slurs in renaissance music because they - that's my personal point of
view - also associate to phrasing, specifically legato singing which is
not necessarily what you want when performing music like this.
I've just had a look in my music typesetting "bible", 'Music Notatian'
by Gardner Read. In the section on vocal notation Read doesn't specify
anything about melismatic slurs in his description text, but he does use
them in a couple of music examples. So I can't use Read as an argument
for my point of view on melismatic slurs:-)
Thank you!
Alexander
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