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Informationen zum Autor edited by Timothy J. McGee Klappentext Praise for the cloth edition: "Commendable in its scholarship . . . should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academicians, as well as to fastidious performers of early music." --Choice "Singing Early Music is a pioneering work of surpassing quality that cannot be too highly recommended." --Journal of Singing "Addresses the needs of the performer directly, giving historical pronunciations for a range of languages [and] sample texts. . . . The CD that comes with the book will prove invaluable. . . . David Klausner's recording is admirably consistent and convincing across the wide range of languages." --Early Music Zusammenfassung An invaluable resource on the pronunciation of historic European languages for singers, scholars, actors, and readers of early music and literature With CD Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments How to Use This Guide Common Abbreviations 1. Introduction Phonetics, David N. Klausner Overview of European Languages, A. G. Rigg Latin, A. G. Rigg Britain 2. English, David N. Klausner Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts 3. Sixteenth-Century Scots, David N. Klausner Sample Texts 4. Anglo-Latin, A. G. Rigg Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts France 5. Old French, Robert Taylor Diachronic Sound Chart Picard Sounds (Typical Picard Sounds) Sample Texts 6. French Latin, Harold Copeman Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts 7. Occitan, Robert Taylor Sample Texts Iberian Peninsula 8. Catalan, Beata FitzPatrick Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts 9. Spanish (Castilian), James F. Burke Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts 10. Spanish Latin, Harold Copeman Sample Texts 11. Galician-Portuguese, Joseph T. Snow and James Burke Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts 12. Portuguese Latin, Harold Copeman Sample Texts Italy 13. Italian, Gianrenzo Clivio Sample Texts 14. Italian Latin, harold Copeman Sample Texts Germany and the Low Countries 15. Middle High German, Peter Frenzel Sample Texts 16. Late Medieval German and Early New High German, Peter Frenzel Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts 17. German Latin, Harold Copeman and Vera U. G. Scherr Sample Texts 18. Flemish (Dutch), William Z. Shetter Sample Texts 19. Netherlands Latin, harold Copeman Sample Texts Glossary Index to Compact Disk Contributors Phonetic Chart, David N. Klausner ...
