Re: Early (very early) project: The Celtic Song Book (c) 1928

[Michael Gerdau]

> > - In older music with lyrics it was common to see beams broken for each
> > syllable. Today it's common practice to not do that. I'll leave it up to
> > you to decide which style you want to follow. It sounds like you're using
> > an older edition for a source.
> 
> That is not totally a thing of old practise/new practice. Conventional vocal 
> practise is to have beams align with melismas. This has the advantage that 
> more complex melismatic lyrics distributions are easy to read.
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I totally agree with that. As a performing singer I very much prefer the mixed 
(3rd) and broken (1st) versions, possibly with an ever so slight preference for 
the mixed one, and then with quite a distance the so called regular (2nd) as of 
Valentin's 3 examples.

Language itself has a rhythm and when lyrics are not just vocalized sound then 
the language and its inherent rhythm almost always is more important.

Kind regards,
Michael
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