Not to mention that the madrigals of the Elizabethan period and thereabouts set the "-tion" suffix as two syll'bles.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark D Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale-List 3" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 3:27 AM Subject: [Finale] [TAN] i-re sighting > In case anyone's collecting data on -ire words spelled in two > syllables, I found one. > > In the second verse of "Take me out to the ballgame" -- verse, not > refrain, ie, the part of the song that one virtually never hears > nowadays -- "umpire" is written on three notes as "um-pi-re". > Published in 1908. > > <http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/display.pl?record=027.125a. > 001&pages=4> > > mdl > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
