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Author: Tamreo
Date: 2001-11-26 16:44
how do u pronounce it?
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Author: GBK
Date: 2001-11-26 17:07
It's pronounced "spore" - playing it correctly is another matter entirely...GBK
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Author: A David Peacham
Date: 2001-11-26 20:43
It may be pronounced "spore", but I rather doubt it. German usually pronounces an initial "sp" as "shp". So I'd expect it to be "shpore". Of course, there are exceptions to every rule (except to the rule that every rule has an exception) so it may be that GBK is right.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2001-11-26 21:04
I may have written too hastily, as my German is rusty. Emms may be correct. Apologies...GBK
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2001-11-27 00:37
something like "schpoor" but why ask here, don't you have a German language teacher at your school?- that way you would be able to hear it said and this would be much better. If you have to say a composers name in public, it is really great that you want to say it correctly and the best way to do this is to hear someone say it (you'll have much more confidence, assuming that you need to anounce your piece or something like that).
by the way- it's Debuseeeee not Deboooooosy, and here in NZ everybody says it incorrectly- it sets a very bad example when we go oversease (since we come from such a small country, each of us feel very much like ambassadors when we are away).
and then the next problem is- Louis Spohr or Ludwig Spohr? (he used both!)
donald
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2001-11-27 01:22
You had better not pronunciate it like spore. This is often used for anthrax.
In Germany there was a big turmoil about a percel written 'gift' on from US. Gift means 'poison' in German.
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Author: Eoin
Date: 2001-11-28 08:30
The correct pronunciation of Debussy is neither Debuseeeee nor Deboooosy. In French all syllables have equal value so the correct pronunciation is somewhere in between the two. If you are expecting Debuseeeee you will hear it as Deboooosy and vice versa.
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2001-11-30 06:07
true, but i was trying to write it in a way that illustrated the incorrect pronunciation of us imperial bred ones from the commonwealth..... and actually, many english types try to make the "bu" into a kind of "buh" (as in book, sort of) so it sounds like "de-BUH-sy". Even anouncers on our Concert FM national radio service do this! ouch. My french friend just laughs when she hears it said this way, as did my old clarinet teacher in the US when he first heard me say it that way (well, actually he cringed).
donald
by the way- my German wife still corrects my pronunciation all the time, even though other people say i speak well (she is very picky and easily embarrassed by my terrible grammar)- i feel that you can't get it PERFECT because there is no perfect, even native German or French or English speaking people will say things slightly differently. But you should at least try not to sound completely ignorant.......
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