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Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music: Scholarship and Performance)

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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...

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.

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.