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Again, to sing the final cadenza of this air as Meyerbeer briefly indicated it, would be impossible and absurd:
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Other changes have their origin in the fact that sometimes a great climax is rendered impossible of realization because the musical phrase culminates on a vowel-sound difficult of emission on that note, and devoid of sonority; another word has sometimes to be substituted. For this reason, in the first air of Alice in the same opera (Robert), “Va, dit-elle,” a verbal rearrangement is always resorted to:
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To avoid the disagreeable and ineffective result produced by the high descending passage on the word “lui” (pronounced in English as “lwee”), the last few bars are performed thus:
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