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

Accompanying Cd Includes Readings Of Most Of The Sample Texts Found In The Book. The Cd Is Intended To Assist In Interpreting The Phonetic Symbols, Which Are Truncated In Ipa (international Phonetic Alphabet). English / David N. Klausner -- Sixteenth-century Scots / David N. Klausner -- Anglo-latin / A.g. Rigg -- Old French / Robert Taylor -- French Latin / Harold Copeman -- Occitan / Robert Taylor -- Catalan / Beata Fitzpatrick -- Spanish (castilian) / James F. Burke -- Spanish Latin / Harold Copeman -- Galician-portuguese / Joseph T. Snow And James F. Burke -- Portuguese Latin / Harold Copeman -- Italian / Gianrenzo P. Clivio -- Italian Latin / Harold Copeman -- Middle High German / Peter Frenzel. Late Medieval German And Early New High German / $4r Peter Frenzel -- German Latin / Harold Copeman And Vera U.g. Scherr -- Flemish (dutch) / William Z. Shetter -- Netherlands Latin / Harold Copeman. Edited By Timothy J. Mcgee With A.g. Rigg And David N. Klausner. Sample Texts From Britain, France, Germany, Italy, And Other Regions Are Recorded On The Accompanying Cd Read By David N. Klausner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Praise for the cloth "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 An invaluable resource to pronunciation of historic European languages from approximately 1200 to 1600 for singers, scholars, actors, and readers of early music and literature. Sample texts from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and other regions are printed in the original language and in transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and recorded on the accompanying CD. A separate chapter for each language addresses a wide range of Latin dialects. Book jacket