Re: engraving question - slur across notes sung to different syllabes?

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/2/19 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thanks for all replies.
>> I'd use phrasing slur, however there's not much phrase to indicate with it...
>> Look at the slurs marked in red in the attachment - a phrasing slur
>> for 2 notes?
>> In the first case Werner's guess may be correct (a slur would prohibit
>> singers from taking a breath inside word "erit"), but the last case is
>> still quite mysterious to me.
>
> It is not unusual to have instruments double some vocal parts and the
> slurs might be a playing instruction for them.

Maybe, i must ask the composer.
Should a dashed slur be used in such a case?

> It is strange that in the last example the slur is present only in one
> of two parallel voices.  Looks almost like a "I can just hear how the
> honorable Mrs Staccatalto is going to mangle her part, so let's put a
> slur just into the part she is going to sing on opening night" slur.

:)
However, this piece is for chorus, so i doubt this explanation :P

thanks,
Janek