natural@w... (Do you have a name?) wrote:
>>I have to admit, I'm stumped. I don't see how anyone could publish such nonsense. I don't doubt there are choral traditions that drop h's in latin, but all the choral recordings I've ever heard of latin texts pronounce the h's.
I know for a fact that all h's were sounded in classical latin,
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Sorry to disappoint you, but what Melanie quoted is standard info in any diction book on sung Latin. That's why I challenged your statement about no silent letters in the first place. It's true that h's were sounded in classi- cal Latin, but sung liturgical Latin has traditionally been pronounced more like Italian (since that's where the church started using Latin). Just because one hears something performed a certain way does not make it right or definitive. Many countried do sing Latin in their own special way, but the standard info is what Melanie quoted.
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