At 06:04 PM 6/14/06 -0700, Richard Yates wrote: >Thanks, Dennis. I shows that I really do not know what i am doing with this. >I was trying to match up syllables to the exact verse one notes. I guess I >have to put in different layer two notes for verse two lyrics. Is that how >it is done? (I cringe at asking what I know is a completely ignorant >question).
Layers would do it, but I'm not much of a notation expert in how to indicate early music. Most of my knowledge is old scholarship, as I stopped studying early music by the mid-1970s, when all you got was a melody and had to fit the words as best you could. However, you may find this interesting. I just checked my library, and I have two different versions of this text. One edition reworks the words to conform to the rhythm rather than the rhyme: "Come shape of rest, and shadow of my end." I think I'll defer to the real early music experts here! Dennis >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:54 PM >Subject: Re: [Finale] Lyrics puzzle - sort of OT > > >> At 05:34 PM 6/14/06 -0700, Richard Yates wrote: >> >http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/ComeHeavySleep.gif >> >How would you match up syllables to notes in the second verse which >begins: >> >"Come, shadow of my end, and shape of rest"? >> >> I've sung this, albeit many years ago (1969). In conjuring up the physical >> memory, it came out of my mouth just now this way: Quarter rest, half note >> (come), quarter tied across bar to eighth (shad-) eighth (ow), two eighths >> (of my) half (end). eighth rest, eighth (and) two slurred eighths (shape) >> two slurred quarters (of) half (rest). >> >> I have no idea if that's the standard way, but lo those many years ago I >> had imagined myself a darn good countertenor and gave a full concert of >> Dowland. I was wrong on being a good countertenor, so maybe I'm wrong on >> those syllables, too. :) >> >> Dennis >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Please participate in my latest project: >> http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
