Thank you for your help. As you can see, I did take parts of your solution. I wanted the open sound at the beginning of bar 31, so I recalibrated to make that still possible.
Bar 30 (in revised score): You've fixed one problem, but added another: You now have parallel fifths between the tenor and bass from beat two to beat three. [edit: was typing while CHGiffen was posting]
By the way: what is the "rule" (such as it exists) for syllabification in Latin? Should it be "sanc-tam" or "sanct-am"..... and on what principle are such decisions made?
Wheelock's Latin, 7th Ed. In Latin as in English, a word has as many syllables as it has vowels or diphthongs. Dividing a word into syllables is called syllabification. Two contiguous vowels or a vowel and a diphthong are separated: dea, de-a, dea; deae, de-ae, deae. A single consonant between two vowels goes with the second vowel: amīcus, a-mī-cus, amīcus. When two or more consonants stand between two vowels, generally only the last consonant goes with the second vowel: mittō, mit-tō, mittō; servāre, ser-vā-re, servāre; cōnsūmptus, cōn-sūmp-tus, cōnsūmptus. However, a stop (p, b, t, d, c, g) plus a liquid (l,r) generally count as a single consonant and go with the following vowel: patrem, pa-trem, patrem; castra, cas-tra, castra. Also counted as single consonants are qu and the aspirates ch, ph, th, which should never be separated in syllabification: architectus, ar-chi-tec-tus, architectus; loquācem, lo-quā-cem, loquācem.
Also see this post for a syllabifier from Fr. Matthew Spencer
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