Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Author: Klausner, David N.
- Author: McGee, Timothy
- Author: Rigg, A. G.
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 —
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$48.25Contents
- 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