Hi Alexander, > especially the King's Singers et al. among you... ;-)
well...not qualifying but answering anyway ;-) [longish explanation about how tied quavers are to be sung in british choral music snipped] <disclaimer> What follows is by no means authoritative but only what I picked up during my choral singing. </disclaimer> I know both conventions (as far as I understood your explanation) and I have sung both, under british church musicians and german ones likewise. It is my understanding that there is no such thing as a strict rule as to how that is to be sung. To a certain extend it is a matter of taste and at least in german music does depend on the context and possibly even on the time that music was written (read: it is my impression that this also had been more fashionable at times and less so at other times). In the end it IMO boils down to what you (or your conductor) likes better. The above is somewhat similar to the way singing Bach is different from singing Mendelssohn (just to give an example). Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Gerdau email: [email protected] GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver
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