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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • The Rain In Spain
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  • Phonetics
  • 1956 songs
  • Songs with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
  • Songs with music by Frederick Loewe
  • Songs from My Fair Lady
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  • %22The Rain in Spain%22 is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The song was published in 1956.The song is a turning point in the plotline of the musical. Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering have been drilling Eliza Doolittle incessantly with speech exercises, trying to break her Cockney accent speech pattern. The key lyric in the song is %22The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain%22, which contains five words that a Cockney would pronounce with [æɪ] or [aɪ] – more like %22eye%22 [aɪ] than the Received Pronunciation diphthong [eɪ]. With the three of them nearly exhausted, Eliza finally %22gets it%22, and recites the sentence with all long-a's. The trio breaks into song, repeating this key phrase as well as singing other exercises correctly, such as %22In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly happen%22, and %22How kind of you to let me come%22, in which Eliza had failed before by dropping the leading 'H'.
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  • USA560763162
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  • 1332577
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  • english
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  • The Rain In Spain
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