French Diction for Singers: A Handbook of Pronunciation for French Opera and Mélodiethe author, 1 sep 2011 - 146 pagina's This detailed handbook provides a thorough account of the lyric pronunciation standard traditionally recognized in French operatic and concert repertoire. Phonetic notation (in IPA), and musical examples are featured prominently. A comprehensive pronunciation guide to French orthography — including obscure spellings, exceptions to pronunciation norms, and borrowed foreign words — as well as a pronunciation dictionary with 7000+ proper nouns found in the repertoire and associated with French art and culture are given at the end of the handbook. |
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SINGING IN FRENCH THE STYLE SOUTENU | 3 |
THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET IN FRENCH | 5 |
FRENCH VOWEL SOUNDS | 7 |
FRENCH CONSONANT SOUNDS | 21 |
SYLLABIFICATION | 29 |
LIAISON | 33 |
SPECIAL PRONUNCIATION CONSIDERATIONS | 43 |
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE | 46 |
PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARY OF PROPER NOUNS | 83 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 128 |
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accent apical articulation aspirate h Barbier Bizet borrowed English words borrowed German borrowed Italian borrowed words cardinal vowels Carré closed vowels conjugations consonant sound Debussy different consonant diphthong élision vocalique enchaînement consonantique especially Fauré final consonant final letter followed formal singing French language French vowel sounds Gounod Halévy harmonisation vocalique heard instances last letter lengthened lip-rounded masculine adjectives Meilhac mixed vowels mute e mute h nasal vowel normally notably numerical adjective œ j œ œ œ œ œ r œ opera and mélodie Pelléas et Mélisande phonetic group plosive plural Poulenc pronounced consonant proper nouns Received Pronunciation repertoire ſato schwa semiconsonant silent as final silent as last silent or pronounced singers singular spellings spoken French style soutenu sung syllabification syllable traditional pronunciations unstressed usually silent uvular trilled verb ending verb tenses vocalic aperture vowel or mute words and names words beginning