Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2005/11

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Driving Dan NUTS
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:40:26 -0500

Joseph H. Fasel wrote:

> Everybody is describing this as a difference in spelling, but of
> course, it is a difference in pronunciation, as well. (The double "t"
> makes a difference.)

Only by modern concepts of spelling-pronunciation relationships. You
have no idea how it would have been interpreted in Mozart's day.
Consider the following:

'A, my dere, a, my dere Son,'
Seyd Mary, 'A, my dere;
my dere, a, my dere Son,'
Kys thy moder, Jhesu,
Kys thy moder, Jhesu,
With a lawghyng chere.'

... from The Fayrfax Carol. How do you pronounce that? Are our modern
phonetic/spelling relationships appropriate for this? ;-)

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