Re: Adds a glyph for tied lyrics. (issue4808074)

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 11/08/2011 13:16, Francisco Vila disait :
> 2011/8/11 Werner LEMBERG<address@hidden>:
> > > > An example is the second aria of Susanna in Mozart's `Le Nozze
> > > > di Figaro', bar 16:
> > > >
> > > > f2     f8  e8       g8        c8
> > > >
> > > > fin -- chè l'a -- "ria è an" -- cor
> > > >
> > > > Almost all singers I've met during my work as a coach have
> > > > problems if they sing it the first time :-)
> > >
> > > That makes four vowels! i+a+e+a
> >
> > Yes :-) Since this is completely unexpected (and I don't know any
> > other work of Mozart with a similar situation), people are
> > stumbling there.
> >
> > > Here http://cosinasdeleon.blogspot.com/2009/07/hinmo-leon.html
> > > are two different instances of 'ioa' but they come from two
> > > words, not three.  First "-- gio~a" , then "Dio~a".
> >
> > No lyric ties either...
>
> So your view is that lyric ties are not used in the real world?  I
> still feel them as a pedagogy resource for young musicians or
> something.  Or maybe old scores did not use them and they are now
> more often used. I don't know.

The first time I've seen tied syllables was in English engravings, but
I'm unable to mention where.

Cheers,
Jean-Charles