u/Butagirl

We are performing “Amor Io Sento L’alma” from Morten Lauridsen’s Fire Madrigals and we’re having a disagreement about how to pronounce “et”, which appears frequently. As a modern Italian speaker, my instinct is to elide the t, but Google AI disagrees with me. My knowledge of mediaeval Italian is sadly non-existent and the audio quality is too poor from online recordings to be able to tell how other groups have sung it.

For those who have sung this piece before, or other pieces with “old” Italian, should we be pronouncing the t or not?

TIA