At 12:19 PM 3/19/04 -0500, Andrew Stiller wrote: >Seldom true. The usual practice is to diphthongize the collection of >vowels, or to suppress one of them. >Consider this, from the vaudeville at the end of Don Giovanni: >Questo e il fin di chi fa mal >Mozart asks the singers to sing "-o e il" on a single note. The note >is a long one, but you will never hear a singer divide it in three; >rather, it usually comes out "Quest' e 'l fin" or "Questw'il fin"
The vowels are written out on one note in Monteverdi's "Combattimento", but the recording I have and the performances (2, really!) I've heard articulate them. There's also Peri's "Gioite al canto mio" where all the syllables on single notes are sung, and when I was studying voice (long, long ago) with John Powell, he made a point that they should be voiced separately. As with the Mozart, the vowels might not be stopped in between, but the different vocal 'filters' seem to be present in the Monteverdi and Peri. (I didn't catch the top of this thread, so pardon if this has already been mentioned.) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
