http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/latin-for-choirs Language in a word Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:06:06 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/latin-for-choirs/comment-page-1#comment-12991 Faldone Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:11:00 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/?p=455#comment-12991 During my days with a community chorus we would invariably pronounce any Latin we sang with the Italianate pronunciation, even when done by a German speaking composer. Several years ago we did Orff's <i>Carmina Burana</i> and our director researched the pronunciation that would have been used by those singing the original songs, a Latin from 13th century Bavaria. During my days with a community chorus we would invariably pronounce any Latin we sang with the Italianate pronunciation, even when done by a German speaking composer. Several years ago we did Orff’s Carmina Burana and our director researched the pronunciation that would have been used by those singing the original songs, a Latin from 13th century Bavaria.

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