Re: Humble question, text at the second note in a ligature

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: "Son_V" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Humble question, text at the second note in a ligature
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>> :-( didn't work - I'm sure it should be a simple thing, but after a lot of
>> work on the score I'm going out of my head ...
>>
>> It's one note that lasts 4 + 2 beats, the word "Mi" is on its own
>> place, but
>> "bien" isn't on the 2 beats note ....
>> Thanks.
>
>
> Well, that makes no sense at all.  You can't sing two syllables to a
> single note.

Well, when singing Monteverdi's Vespers, I remember having to fit about
a dozen of syllables to some single notes.

Take a look at
<URL:http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/311853>, page 10.  Or
probably more convincingly interspersed with "normal" syllable
distributions several times on page 11.

-- 
David Kastrup