----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org>
To: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>
Cc: "Son_V" <vincenzo.a...@gmail.com>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: Humble question, text at the second note in a ligature
"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes:
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org>
To: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>
Cc: "Son_V" <vincenzo.a...@gmail.com>; <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Humble question, text at the second note in a ligature
"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes:
----- Original Message -----
Well, that makes no sense at all. You can't sing two syllables to a
single note.
Well, when singing Monteverdi's Vespers, I remember having to fit
about
a dozen of syllables to some single notes.
Take a look at
<URL:http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/311853>, page 10.
Or
probably more convincingly interspersed with "normal" syllable
distributions several times on page 11.
I don't personally see examples of two syllables per note there: there
are a few where the words could be hyphenated better, that's all I can
see.
Page 11. There is a single note for all of "Donec ponem inimicos".
Similarly "Tecum principium in die virtutis". Again with "in
splendoribus sanctorum ex utero ante luciferum".
I would assume that's simply chant.
As opposed to page 10, it is interspersed with syllable-timed music, and
it needs to obey the total note value in order to keep in synch with
instruments. Also it's not a single singer but multiple voices. So
it's rather chanty than chant.
Furthermore, note that, simply because a printer does something in
1610 doesn't make it correct notation in 2014.
We did sing from modern transcriptions using the same style of notation.
--
David Kastrup
I'm struggling to understand your page numbers to some extent: are you
referring to the one labelled (at the top) 12? The words Domine ad
adiuuandum?
In this case, it looks like a return to older styles of notation, where the
scribe simply wrote the words out and the singers knew which syllable to fit
to which note. No way should you try to fit multiple syllables to a single
fusa here. Nor putting Domi (from Domine) onto that semi minima rest at the
start, either...
--
Phil Holmes
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