Ukrainian stress

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

Colleagues -
It happens in English songs too, e.g. -

"I never promised you a rose garDEN."

Cheers to the list,
DRL


On May 2, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Chew G wrote:

> Now, that's another question. It probably is the case that  
> Musorgskii's brand of realism normally demands that sort of approach  
> (and this is one of the reasons why M and Janacek are sometimes  
> bracketed together, though J too is a little more problematic in  
> this respect than people sometimes think), but as a _general_  
> principle I wouldn't go along with Prof Newton's insistence on  
> stresses matching up. There are often moments in great songs when  
> that ought to happen; there may be some moments when the music  
> should overwhelm the text regardless of the stress. I don't think  
> scansion in verse is an adequate comparison. (Not to mention the  
> 20th-century styles in which composers may, I think quite  
> legitimately, regard texts as collections of interesting syllables  
> rather than collections of impassioned sentences.)

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