"Phil Holmes" <[email protected]> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 

>>> Well, that makes no sense at all.  You can't sing two syllables to a
>>> single note.
>>
>> Well, when singing Monteverdi's Vespers, I remember having to fit about
>> a dozen of syllables to some single notes.
>>
>> Take a look at
>> <URL:http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/311853>, page 10.  Or
>> probably more convincingly interspersed with "normal" syllable
>> distributions several times on page 11.
>
> I don't personally see examples of two syllables per note there: there
> are a few where the words could be hyphenated better, that's all I can
> see.

Page 11.  There is a single note for all of "Donec ponem inimicos".
Similarly "Tecum principium in die virtutis".  Again with "in
splendoribus sanctorum ex utero ante luciferum".

-- 
David Kastrup

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