"Singing Early Music" studies the principal languages of Europe as they were spoken from the twelfth to the seventeenth century: English, Scots, French, Occitan, Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, Italian, German, and Flemish as well as the Latin dialect of each area. Each chapter is written by an expert in the particular language and includes several sample texts, printed in both the original language and in transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet. All the texts are recorded on the accompanying compact disc. This comprehensive volume and CD will be invaluable for medieval and Renaissance studies as well as for the performance of early music and drama.
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"... it certainly belongs in every institutional library and among the holdings of all those interested in any way in early music and literature. Singing Early Music is a pioneering work of surpassing quality that can not be too highly recommended." Journal of Singing "Commendable in its scholarship, this sturdily bound book should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academicians, as well as to fastidious performers of early music." Choice "This book ... addresses the needs of the performer directly, giving historical pronunciation for a range of languages, sample texts, and just enough explanation of how we know... " Early Music "... required study for any musician venturing seriously into the performance of early Western European vocal music." Notes "I highly recommend this book for singers and teachers of early music eager to add an extra dimension to their singing." European Journal of Early Music
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This is a fantastic book for early music geeks...,
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This review is from: Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music: Scholarship and Performance) (Paperback)
This book, along with its companion audio CD, provides detailed pronunciation guidance and sample texts for speaking and singing English, 16th c. Scotts, Anglo-Latin, Old French, French Latin, Occitan, Catalan, Castilian, Spanish Latin, Galician-Portuguese, Portuguese Latin, Italian, Italian Latin, Middle High German, Late Medieval and Early High New German, German Latin, Flemish/Dutch, and Netherlands Latin. As soon as I read its extensive explanation of the great vowel shift in England, I was hooked...
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Guía esencial para Cantantes,
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This review is from: Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music: Scholarship and Performance) (Paperback)
Este libro ofrece una ayuda esencial para los cantantes y cantores de Música Antigua. La aproximación a las diferentes fonéticas del Latín y de las lenguas Europeas es concisa y precisa. Atención, es muy útil para cantar Música MUY antigua (hasta el S. XVI) pero no tanto para música barroca o preclásica.
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a must have book,
This review is from: Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music: Scholarship and Performance) (Paperback)
If you do any kind of early music singing, this is a must-have book. It even comes with a CD to help navigate all of the pronunciations.
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