2011/8/10 Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org>: >> I can't find it now, but I definitely remember having seen three >> syllables in a soprano aria (I think it was Italian). It was >> something like "-- to e in". > > An example is the second aria of Susanna in Mozart's `Le Nozze di > Figaro', bar 16: > > f2 f8 e8 g8 c8 > > fin -- chè l'a -- "ria è an" -- cor > > Almost all singers I've met during my work as a coach have problems if > they sing it the first time :-)
That makes four vowels! i+a+e+a Here http://cosinasdeleon.blogspot.com/2009/07/hinmo-leon.html are two different instances of 'ioa' but they come from two words, not three. First "-- gio~a" , then "Dio~a". -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel