At 8:13 PM +0200 8/4/11, Daniel Wolf wrote: >On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:00:03 +0200, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm interested in why? > > >Common practice or not (and I have found enough counter examples in my >library to call the "common practice" into question), it makes some >syntactic sense that the comma (or semi-comma) does not occur within a >word, and as the extension is a lengthening of the word, placing the comma >between the word and its extension is misleading. Moreover, having the >comma after the extension _could_ be useful to an interpreter, for example >as a suggestion for breathing. Thank you, Dennis, for your elegant >solution and examples.
Ah, I think I see the confusion. A WORD extension, by definition, does not take place in the middle of a word. A SYLLABLE extension, by definition, does. The former is usually denoted by an underscore, the latter by hyphens. That, at least, is what singers are used to seeing. So in that sense a word extension is not part of the word, any more than a slur is part of a note. It's an articulation mark, if you think about it. And yes, you can find just about anything in some publication or another, including diphthongs separated into two different syllables, but usually by students. > >In any case, I'm preparing an edition of a choral score by the late Barney >Childs, a composer (and an Oxford and Stanford-trained English scholar) >who knew rather precisely what he wanted to do with texts, so I feel >obliged to follow his notation here. Of course. No question about that. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen es wie Sie wollen, machen es nur schön!" (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
