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Re: Bill Cutter, Conductor of Concert Choir
bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 22 11:12:59 1996
Hmmmm. The last notes Mozart wrote are in the Lacrimosa, measure 8 in
6/8 time. The last note, text "eis", is probably a dotted
quarter... and I guess that people were trying to breathe between that
and the next note, which sounded awful. So Cutter considered ending
the note an eighth early, having the "s" pronounced for a sixteenth,
everyone breathe in a sixteenth, and that start singing again in the
next measure. How good is my guess?
A better solution, imho, is to sing right through the change to piano,
not breathing at all. Or to put a HUGE pause at the end of that
measure, marking Mozart's death.
(Can you tell I've sung this before? :-)
