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Lopen posted...

Bro, I can say "like Columbus" exactly like I remember "like George Washington" despite the former having one more syllable by drawing out the lum a bit.

I know they're inherently linked with Rhythm but you're dumbing down how singing works if you need everything to be one for one.

Would you prefer I talk about how in melismatic writing, you would never intentionally extend an "M" sound, and how in good choral practice you only extend vowels, so that "Like Columbus" would be pronounced "Like Colooombus"?

It's a different rhythm unless you add a melisma but nobody is singing two notes for the syllable "um" so therefore the rhythmic movement is different, and the cadence is notably different because, and get this, a dotted quarter note is different from a quarter note paired with an eighth note.

If anybody here is dumbing down singing, it's you by insisting that the two have the same cadence. They do not.

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