2011/8/11 Werner LEMBERG<address@hidden>:
An example is the second aria of Susanna in Mozart's `Le Nozze
di Figaro', bar 16:
f2 f8 e8 g8 c8
fin -- chè l'a -- "ria è an" -- cor
Almost all singers I've met during my work as a coach have
problems if they sing it the first time :-)
That makes four vowels! i+a+e+a
Yes :-) Since this is completely unexpected (and I don't know any
other work of Mozart with a similar situation), people are
stumbling there.
Here http://cosinasdeleon.blogspot.com/2009/07/hinmo-leon.html
are two different instances of 'ioa' but they come from two
words, not three. First "-- gio~a" , then "Dio~a".
No lyric ties either...
So your view is that lyric ties are not used in the real world? I
still feel them as a pedagogy resource for young musicians or
something. Or maybe old scores did not use them and they are now
more often used. I don't know.