> > - In older music with lyrics it was common to see beams broken for each > > syllable. Today it's common practice to not do that. I'll leave it up to > > you to decide which style you want to follow. It sounds like you're using > > an older edition for a source. > > That is not totally a thing of old practise/new practice. Conventional vocal > practise is to have beams align with melismas. This has the advantage that > more complex melismatic lyrics distributions are easy to read. [rest snipped]
I totally agree with that. As a performing singer I very much prefer the mixed (3rd) and broken (1st) versions, possibly with an ever so slight preference for the mixed one, and then with quite a distance the so called regular (2nd) as of Valentin's 3 examples. Language itself has a rhythm and when lyrics are not just vocalized sound then the language and its inherent rhythm almost always is more important. Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Gerdau email: m...@qata.de GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver
