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

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-02-19 02:45 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
I'm a woodwind player and singer, now learning cello, and being exposed 
to bowing markings such as this. Werner mentions portato and I'm trying 
to get my muscle memory to cope with the sight of staccato dots under 
what my mind insists is a slur.  I think David may be close, in that 
doubling a vocal line in a stringed instrument might carry with it the 
bowing markings for the string player.

Colin

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