Lowland Scots Pronunciation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It is more or less commonly taken for granted that singers who dwell in Lowland Scotland know how to sing Lowland Scots. This does not follow. English singers who have been trained exclusively in Italy say, often do not know how to sing English But further, the young Scots singer of to-day has had no opportunity of hearing the sounds of the Classic Scots of our finest national lyrics.

The vowels and consonants of Classic Scots can be easily taught to singers acquainted with Italian, F much, and German, the Scots pronunciation having more in common with these tongues than with English The Italian a, the French u, and the German ch, for instance, are all very much in evidence in Scots, and' the trilled r is not, as in English, almost a negligible quantity.

And for examples of this Classic Scots we need not go further than to the lyrics of Burns, who may be said to have set for us a permanent standard among the shifting sands of our varying dialects much as Dante's work raised his native Tuscan to the rank of Classic Italian from among the varying Italian dialects which still locally persist as Milanese, Venetian, etc.

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