Re: Lyircs melsima line ending in interpunctation

[David Kastrup]

Hayden Muhl <address@hidden> writes:

> Regardless of musical style, you should never* see text set like this.
>
>     For unto us a child is bo_______________________________rn
>
> How you handle final consonants is going to be part of the stylistic
> convention of the music you're performing and personal choice.

In Italian maybe.  In English, "rn" is necessary to figure out the vowel
you are supposed to be singing in the first place.  Fortunately, at
least the punctuation can't influence the phonetic value half a word
earlier.

-- 
David Kastrup