As one whose recordings were produced a few clicks from Brno it's easy to relate to R as vowel. On the other hand, how many syllables would "fire" have in the "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"?
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay > At 3:56 PM -0400 4/29/07, dhbailey wrote: > >Christopher Smith wrote: > >> > >>On Apr 29, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >>You don't say what your hyphenation solution is for "fire", though. > >>I have simply put it in as a melisma, but admittedly it won't be > >>sung the same as if was split to two syllables. > >> > >>"Fi-re"? Any other solution? > >> > > > >This is where the composer/arranger takes a leap of faith that the > >performer will understand what is meant. All notation is imprecise > >to a point, and some notation is more imprecise than others. > > > >I wouldn't hyphenate "fi- re" for the same reason that I wouldn't > >hyphenate against dictionary hyphenation in general. I would trust > >that the person in charge of the music would understand that if the > >word isn't broken into two syllables, the note(s) which go with the > >'re' part of the word would not be heard clearly > > OK, there's an up tempo madrigal that starts "Fi-re, fi-re" at some > length. Two syllables, two notes. You may not like it, but it has > to be done. > > >(it's hard to project when singing an 'rrrrrr' sound). > > On the contrary, "r" IS a vowel, the ONLY vowel in "girl," "bird," or > "heard." (That is to say, since it's easy to get tangled up in > semantics, it is a phonated sound that can be sustained.) The > written vowels are effectively mute. It is a BETTER vowel (better > sound quality) if it is formed by keeping the tongue low in the mouth > and lifting the two outside edges up to touch the upper teeth, than > if it is formed by raising the middle of the tongue to the soft > palate, but it functions as a vowel, and if it quacks like a duck, > etc., etc. > > John > > > -- > John & Susie Howell > Virginia Tech Department of Music > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
