At 02:38 PM 5/15/00 -0700, natural@w... wrote:
>I know for a fact that all h's were sounded in classical latin, <snip>
Ah, but there's the rub - the difference between classical & ecclesiastical
Latin. The Wall book (and most other singer's diction books) trace their
roots to a standard resource (the"Bible," if you will) of church Latin
(sorry, I'm at home and all my diction resources are at school - just
finished giving a final in it). That said, I've worked with *many* a
choral director who modifies those rules at will, perhaps for more legato,
perhaps for vocal/technical reasons, perhaps to emphasize or de-emphasize
text, sometimes for reasons I couldn't comprehend.
Leslie J.
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