If the weasel word "nearly" makes you happy, by all means include it. :-P
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:44 PM, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Patterson wrote: > [snip]> every language came into the language from some other language, and >> >> musical terms in English are no exception. > > [snip] > > You had me until here -- words have to begin somewhere, so in some language, > each word has been original at some point. :-) > > I agree with you concerning the Italian words having slipped over into > English, where words don't have gender. > > I also point out that in dealing with Italian words in older music such as > by Bach and Mozart and Haydn and people of that vintage (and into the > Classical era and Romantic era as well), those composers spoke Italian and > so their use of any musical terms from Italian is much more idiomatic and > not merely taken from a music dictionary, and so need to be considered more > carefully than, for example, an American who only speaks English deciding to > write Allegro at the start of a musical work. > > I wonder why violins and violas have different genders in Italian? > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
