Help with OCS pronunciation
Janneke van de Stadt
Janneke.vandeStadt at WILLIAMS.EDU
Fri Oct 9 13:02:18 UTC 2009
Dear colleagues,
One of my students is conducting Rakhmaninov's "Bogoroditse Devo,
raduisia" and has asked me to help with the pronunciation. The text
in his score is, of course, in modern Russian (and it's been a long,
long time since my grad school days when I might have known such
things!) so I can't tell when the "e" is really a "jat."
Can anyone help? I'd be especially happy to contact anyone who is
willing by phone to benefit from a quick oral refresher. And while I
do remember that not all specialists agree on OCS pronunciation, if
I can at least be consistent then that's a good start!
Here are the words I'm wondering about:
Bogoroditse (is it Bo-go-ro-di-tse or Bo-go-ro-di-tsye?)
Devo (De-vo or Dye-vo?)
Blagoslovenna (Bla-go-slo-ve-nna or Bla-go-slo-vye-nna)
Chrevo (Chre-vo or Chrye-vo)
Many thanks in advance,
Janneke
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