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

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.Rigg, A. G. is the author of 'Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance', published 1996 under ISBN 9780253329615 and ISBN 0253329612.