On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:22:17 -0800 Craig Tompkins <craigtompkins@t...> wrote:
> Dear listers, > I would like to wish you all a very festive > holiday season from the very > green and very wet West Coast of Canada. I'm > heading to Ontario and will > be away from my email for about 10 days, but in > the meantime, how do you > pronounce the word 'iron' in the aria Thou > Shalt Break Them from > Messiah? Is it eye-ron, eye-run, eye-earn or > something else entirely?
There should be no "R" sound of any sort. I recommend aI-aN (Schwa on the second syllable, but my keyboard doesn't have one). Stress on the first syllable, much softer on the second syllable - in relative terms mf to p for the two syllables (I don't know the dynamics in the piece).
Peggy
Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
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