Scelata: Lourdes Hymn

Friday 12 September 2008

Immaculate Mary.... where does your parish put the accent, on "a-" or on "-ve"?

A-VEH, a-VEH, a-VEH Mari-AHHHHHH!

Dad29 said...: Thanks!

Finally figured out the "Roman accent" thing, which has to do with lengthening the duration, not necessarily increasing the inflection, on a given syllable.

Another mystery resolved!; 12 September 2008 at 12:18
Gavin said...: I think adults tend to put the accent in the right place and kids tend to accent the "-ve". Then again, children always scream this one, so maybe it's more a matter of everything being equally loud, so maybe a loud beat 3 sounds louder to us musicians? Or is that just confusing?; 12 September 2008 at 12:19
Scelata said...: "Right?"
The French, (although French is essentially a language without stressed and unstressed syllables, IIRC,) put the "ve" on the long, accented (down-beat,)"fa". (The first "ah" is a pick up on "do")
So it could be said that that is the more authentic way.
I'm told, (though cannot attest to it myself,) that in most European countries they do the same?

(Save the Liturgy, Save the World); 12 September 2008 at 14:46

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