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by The Law
11 Jul 2007 21:46
Forum: Musical questions
Topic: How to pronounce "ex audi" (Requiem-Mozart)
Replies: 15
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CHGiffen wrote:There is also the Latin spoken and sung in 15th-16th century Britain, distinctly different from ecclesiatical (italianate) Latin and from germanic Latin.
That's right, but I think today it's quite unusual, athough there might be some people using it.
by The Law
10 Jul 2007 22:16
Forum: Musical questions
Topic: How to pronounce "ex audi" (Requiem-Mozart)
Replies: 15
Views: 34728

It's almost impossible to pronounce right classical Latin, also it's not common to do so in music. There was a special French, English, German, Italian etc. pronounciation in the past, but only the Italian (I suppose this is meant by the "Ecclesiastical" one) and the German ones have survi...
by The Law
10 Jul 2007 14:01
Forum: Musical questions
Topic: How to pronounce "ex audi" (Requiem-Mozart)
Replies: 15
Views: 34728

I don't know which pronounciation you prefer, but in most English speaking countries the Italian pronounciation of Latin is the most common one. For Italian it has to be: ks for x --> eks-au-di It might be possible to use gz (egz-au-di), but I'm not shure. The main problem is, that a letter "x&...