Singing Early Music. The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Primera edición en rústica. Edición original en cartoné, 1996.

Timothy J. McGee with A. G. Rigg and David N. Klausner.
An invaluable resource on the pronunciation of historic European languages for singers, scholars, actors, and readers of early music and literature. Sample text 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.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Britain
- English
- Sixteenth-Century Scots
- Anglo-Latin

France
- Old French
- French Latin
- Occitan

Iberian Penisula
- Catalan
- Spanish (Castilian)
- Spanish Latin
- Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese Latin

Italy
- Italian
- Italian Latin

Germany and the Low Countries
- Middle High German
- Late Medieval German and Early New High German
- German Latin
- Flemish (Dutch)
- Netherlands Latin