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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Word syllable breaks in printed songs
Is there a set convention for breaking syllables of words to correspond with the pitch notes in a music score?
E.g.
carols = car-ols or ca-ols
shining" = shin-ing or shi-ning
children = child-ren or chil-dren
hatred = hat-red or or ha-tred
Ma-ry = Ma-ry or Mar-yh
Saviour = Sa-viour or Sav-iour
voices = voic-es or voi-ces
vision - vis-ion or vi-sion
E.g.
carols = car-ols or ca-ols
shining" = shin-ing or shi-ning
children = child-ren or chil-dren
hatred = hat-red or or ha-tred
Ma-ry = Ma-ry or Mar-yh
Saviour = Sa-viour or Sav-iour
voices = voic-es or voi-ces
vision - vis-ion or vi-sion
Top answer
Generally, the singer breaks the word so that 'syllables' have terminal vowel or liquid sounds if possible, so that the notes can be extended and the voice full and rounded. That's all I know about it.
- Generally, the singer breaks the word so that 'syllables' have terminal vowel or liquid sounds if possible, so that the notes can be extended and the voice full and rounded.
- That's all I know about it.
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Generally, the singer breaks the word so that 'syllables' have terminal vowel or liquid sounds if possible, so that the notes can be extended and the voice full and rounded. That's all I know about it.
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AnonymousIs there a set convention for breaking syllables of words to correspond with the pitch notes in a music score?It should be the same as the syllabification shown in the dictionary.
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