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From:  "Alain Zürcher" <az@c...>
Date:  Wed Apr 12, 2000  1:17 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] speaking of Italian diction - i and h


Valerio Vanni wrote :

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:58:54 Alain Z|rcher wrote:
>
>>While we are at Italian diction, ther is another point that bothers me:
>> the accent on final vowels such as in "perchi" or "perchh".
>> First, I would assume that "i" should be sung closed and "h" open.
>
>That's right.

Really? ;-)
I wonder at which point my e-acute and my e-grave got translated into "i"
and "h"! Majordomo had not this problem, or maybe you use something else
than ISO Occidental Alphabet?

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