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Speaking of Handel, of course there is also his famous mis-setting: “The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorrup-<span style="font-weight: bold;">TI</span>-ble"</div>
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This aria is almost always performed in a corrected version, but Andrew Parrott uses Handel’s original, warts and all: </div>
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<div>Another example by Handel that has always struck me as poor setting is, from Israel in Egypt: “thy right hand, O Lord, is
<span style="font-weight: bold;">BE</span>-come glorious."</div>
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And now for something completely different… a much more obscure example occurs in the final verse of Kurt Weill’s song “Petroleum-Song (Die Muschel von Margate)”, wherein he erroneously puts the accent on the penultimate syllable of the word “Aserbeidschan”
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>David K Feurzeig <<a href="mailto:mozojo@gmail.com">mozojo@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, August 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Paul Siskind <<a href="mailto:siskinpa@potsdam.edu">siskinpa@potsdam.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span><<a href="mailto:smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Smt-talk] Looking for bad text settings<br>
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Recent contributions reminded me of this classic, from Handel's Messiah:
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<div style="font-size: medium; "> (…have gone astray)</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; ">It's not exactly bad scansion, but no native English speaker would have put that pause before completing the simile. (German does not have a homonym that can mean both "resemble" and "are fond of".)</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; ">This lick has occasioned adolescent chorister twittering for decades--perhaps centuries?</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; ">So has this one, from Mendelssohn's Saint Paul:</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; ">He watching over Israel,</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; ">Slumbers not nor sleeps. (read: "slumber, snot, snore, sleep")</div>
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Again, nothing "wrong", but one imagines only a non-native speaker could have written it.</div>
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