Ukrainian stress

[Olga Meerson]

Wonderful, Ralph, absolutely correct, precise, and unattainably dispassionate... 

----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Cleminson <Ralph.Cleminson at PORT.AC.UK>
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008 7:05 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Ukrainian stress

> Since the sentence is Russian, the question of stress in Ukrainian 
> (on what would anyway, in that case, be ????), does not really 
> arise.  
> 
> What is relevant, however, is that Musorgskij, like other composers 
> of the period, consciously drew on popular traditions, and that the 
> metrical structure of folksong is frequently at odds with the 
> normal spoken stress of the words (there are many examples in 
> Russian and English as well).  This line is, moreover, very typical 
> metrically of Ukrainian popular verse (trochaic heptameter with 
> caesura after the fourth foot).  The music follows the notional 
> metre rather than the stress of speech, and this is no doubt a 
> deliberate element of "folk" colour in the opera.
> 
> 
> >>> Dan Newton <danewton at U.WASHINGTON.EDU> 05/02/08 08:17 AM >>>
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a question for anyone familiar with Ukrainian.
> 
> In Musorgskii's opera Soroschintsyi Fair, there is this line: 
> "Razve  
> mozhno s moei dochkoi takto obrashchat'sia?"  The musical line is  
> such that the word "moei" is stressed on the first syllable, 
> contrary  
> to Russian speech.  I'm wondering whether this is a case of the 
> late  
> stages of alcoholism (i.e., bad composition) or simply a  
> Ukrainianism.  Would Ukrainian stress the first syllable?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Dan
> 
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