Renate wrote:
> Funny (digressing a bit), When I have been taught plain chant (gregorian
> chant), my teachers (one was taught by benedictine nuns in Germany, the
> other two at Solesmes) have expressively taught that the c is _not_ mute,
> i.e. it is pronounced with the following syllable, like this:
> sa - ngktus
Of course the c is pronounced. It is sung: sang-ktus, but the ng
belongs to the first syllable. If you write san-ctus, the singer
realizes too late that he should sing an -ng-, not a -n-. I often
indicate the moment where -m- -n- -ng- has to be sung with a
finger closure, especially at ends of movements.
Christof
