(March 6, 2013 at 6:31 pm)ManMachine Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 11:57 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Scholars have been able to come up with a pluasuble reconstruction of how spoken English sounded around 1600 based on a study of early books written on pronunciation and a study of texts. It sound very different from modern English. It has opened way to a greater understanding of English literature.
The parallels between this and historically informed musical performance are stricking (they overlap too in historically informed singing).
I get how the sources might suggest pronunciation, but where on Earth did those accents come from?
I'm not convinced.
MM
We have writings from the period which shows us how words were being pronounced Also there are verses in Shakespeare's works which don't rhyme in modern pronunciation, however they do in the pronunciation which has been figured out.
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