Re: Latin help

R.A.Brown wrote:
>I fail to see how this match between quantitative and accentual rhythms can
>possibly be said to be "all wrong for that melody."
In fact, it's _quite right for the melody_. It's surely true that no Latin
speaker ever stressed illud, negat, potest etc. on the last syllable. But
hey it's poetry/music, where all rules may be bent--almost required when
fitting a foreign lang. to another lang's patterns.  And in any case, it's
hardly echt Lateinisch....  I imagine there are great and well-known
poems/songs in English with stress on "a, the"  or other normally unstressed
syllables etc.  I'm fairly sure that in Gregorian/ Palestrinan etc. chant--
and certainly in some of the more dramatic settings of Latin texts (Bach's
and  Beethoven's Masses, Orff et al.) -- there are also anomalous stresses.
>
>I just do not understand the point you are making - nor do I see any point
>in continuing this sub-thread in the Latin help thread.
>
It _is_ becoming a rather enlarged mole-hill.............:-)))))

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