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Singing in Czech

A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Timothy Cheek’s revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set “a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction,” according to Notes: The Journal of the Music Library Association. It offers users updated information, important clarifications, and expanded repertoire in a more accessible, easier to use format.Singing in Czech is divided into two parts. Using IPA, the first part takes the reader systematically through each sound of the Czech language, enhanced by recordings of native Czech opera singers. Chapters cover the Czech vowels, consonants, rules of assimilation, approaches to singing double consonants, stress and length, Moravian dialect, and an introduction to singing in Slovak. Fine points of formal pronunciation have been clarified in this revised edition. In the second part, Cheek offers a thorough overview of Czech art song, expanded from the first edition. Texts to major song literature and opera excerpts by Smetana, Dvorák, Janácek, Martinu, and Haas, with timings, editions, word-for-word translations, idiomatic translations, and IPA transcriptions follow. In this revision, Cheek has included additional cycles by Dvorák and Martinu, and two new chapters on Czech female composers Vítezslava Kaprálová and Sylvie Bodorová.This revised edition of Singing in Czech is useful for all those who are interested and engaged in the performance of the rich Czech vocal repertoire.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-12-11
Mått154 x 228 x 30 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGuides to Lyric Diction
Antal sidor430
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780810888777

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A leading expert on Czech vocal music, Timothy Cheek is pianist, vocal coach, and professor of performing arts at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance in Ann Arbor. He is the author of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire (2001), The Janácek Opera Libretti, volumes I (2003), II (2004) and III (2016), The Bartered Bride, Prodaná nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation (2010), and Rusalka: A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation (2012), published by Scarecrow Press and Rowman & Littlefield.

List of Recording ExamplesForeword to the First EditionPrefacePart One: The Sounds of the Czech LanguageIntroduction to Part OneChapter 1: The Czech Vowel SoundsChapter 2: The Czech ConsonantsChapter 3: Double ConsonantsChapter 4: AssimilationChapter 5: Stress and LengthChapter 6: Moravian, the Dialect—and Slovak, the LanguagePart Two: Czech Vocal RepertoireIntroduction to Part TwoChapter 7: OverviewChapter 8: Bedirch Smetana Chapter 9: Antonín DvofiákChapter 10: Leoš Janáãek Chapter 11:Bohuslav MartinuChapter 12: Pavel Haas Chapter 13: Vítûzslava KaprálováChapter 14: Sylvie Bodorová Appendix A: PublishersAppendix B: OrganizationsAppendix C: Czech PoetsAppendix D: Pronunciation ChecklistSelected ReferencesIndex About the Author

Over the past decade or so, singing in Czech has become more and more accepted, and one might even say popular. A big part of this change was Timothy Cheek’s 2001 publication of Singing in Czech, which not only provided an explanation of Czech lyric diction, but also gave IPA transcriptions and both word for word and idiomatic English translations of many Czech songs and arias. This book opened up the world of Czech art song to American singers in a wonderful way. It has been nearly fifteen years since the publication of that volume, and now Cheek has published a revised and somewhat expanded edition.... If, like me, you are excited by the inclusion of new repertoire, or if you do not already possess the 2001 edition, then Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, Revised Edition, available in soft cover and ebook, is well worth the money. It is a vital reference for anyone who wishes to sing in Czech or who has students who wish to do so, and it would make an excellent text for a class on Czech diction and/or repertoire.