At 05:35 PM 05/15/2000 -0500, Leslie Jones 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.
1. you took me out of context. I did say that there were multiple traditions,
often paralleling vernacular languages
2. this doesn't begin to account for the way latin texts are pronounced in
recordings
I'd still throw that book away. It's intellectually dishonest.
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