[silence] Etudes Australes and Etudes Boreales spelling

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Tom, thank you very much! The debate *is* perhaps a bit too extensive for
such a minor point, but I actually *have* wondered about the pronunciation
long before the accent question appeared. Thanks for clearing this up.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Thomas Moore <tmoore@umbc.edu> wrote:

>
> Jashiin,
>
> John said Australes in three syllables, as far as I remember, and we talked
> about the pieces a number of times. (Also my recollection with Boreales.)
>
> The lengthy debate on the wikipedia page is quite amusing, but anyone who
> had taken time to read John's introductory note for the Etudes Australes
> would see that it begins, "Etudes Australes are thirty-two piano etudes ...
> The Title comes from Atlas Australis, a book of star maps..." At no point
> does the word "etude" have an accent (even when written in lower case, "Each
> etude has eight systems..."), and the word Australes is capitalized when the
> title of the pieces is written out in the text ("Etudes Australes").
>
> Best,
> Tom
>
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>
> Thomas Moore
> Director, Arts & Culture
> Institutional Advancement
> UMBC
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>
>
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