The Short

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Ex. 4.15. D. Corri, A Select Collection, i. 104
Ex. 4.16. D. Corri, A Select Collection, ii. 5
final note of the preceding phrase. In Giordani's aria ‘Sento che in seno’ (Ex. 4.17,) the time required for the
articulation is sometimes taken from the previous note and sometimes from the following. Another good example
occurs in ‘The Soldier Tired’ from Arne's Artaxerxes (Ex. 4.18.) This manner of shortening upbeats for breathing was
also recommended by Mary Novello later in the nineteenth century as the normal procedure for ‘taking a half breath in
the middle of a sentence’. She went on to say: ‘the time of inhalation should be taken from the note which follows
respiration, unless the musical phrase requires this note to retain its full value of duration’, adding that such breaths
ought to be taken before such words as ‘the’, ‘of, ‘to’, and ‘and’. 279 It is worth
Ex. 4.17. D. Corri, A Select Collection, i. 88
Ex. 4.18. D. Corri, A Select Collection, ii. 49
279 Voice and Vocal Art (London, 1856), 11.