Re: Singing in foreign langs. was Re: Greetings

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From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>

> Sally Caves scripsit:
>
> > As for distortion, it always seemed to me that singers of songs in
Spanis= > h
> > were far more willing to put the emphasis on the "wrong" syllable than
> > singers of English songs, or to end measures in the middle of a word.
>
> AFAICT, Spanish popular verse seems to count syllables only and ignore
stress
> altogether.
I guess that's what I'm hearing, then.  Hmmm.  And why it's hard, sometimes,
to understand their songs.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."