Call me dense (you won't be the first), but I don't understand your reply.
David
Robert Patterson wrote:
If the weasel word "nearly" makes you happy, by all means include it. :-P
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:44 PM, dhbailey
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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?
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