At 03:17 PM 9/30/01 -0400, Jennifer wrote:
>In this case, I'm pretty sure the reason Purcell set
>it as "ech'ing" instead of "echoing" was because he
>only had room for two syllables instead of three.
That never stopped the Italian composers; probably could have fit at least 2
or 3 more syllables into that space :-)
GWendel, dT
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