Singing in Czech
Subtitle: a guide to Czech lyric diction and vocal repertoire
By: Timothy Cheek ; with a foreword by Sir Charles Mackerras
Edition: Revised edition.
Series: Guides to lyric diction; Guides to lyric diction
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780810888777
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Vocal music; Pronunciation; Bibliography; Diction; Czech language; Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.); Singing
Other titles: Guide to Czech lyric diction and vocal repertoire
Notes: "Accompanying audio accessible online"--Back cover.

"List of recording examples": pages ix-xii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sounds of the Czech language. Introduction to part one; title: The Czech vowel sounds. The long and the short of Czech vowels ; The dipthongs ; Double vowels ; Other vowel combinations ; The semivowel j ; The glottal ; Vocalic r ; Vocalic l ; A note on the schwa and shadow vowels in Czech; title: The Czech consonants. The bilabial consonants ; The alveolar consonants ; The soft palatal consonants ; Efficiency in singing ; The labiodental fricatives ; The velar consonants ; The laryngeal fricative ; The alveolar fricatives ; The alveolar affricates ; The alveolar lateral ; The alveolar vibrant ; The voiced alveolar vibrant ; The unvoiced alveolar vibrant ; The foreign letters q, w, and x ; Singing individual letters ; Contractions ; Foreign words ; Old Czech spelling ; Practicing different combinations ; Approach to singing consonants; title: Double consonants. Pronouncing one consonant where two are written ; Pronouncing a double consonant ; Singing double consonants in Czech; title: Assimilation. Czech mates ; Final consonants ; The preposition přes (přese) ; Yielding the right of way ; The magical v ; The fickle ř ; Words begining with sh- ; Formal pronunciation of kresba, prosba, modlitba, svatba ; Words ending in -me ; The one-letter prepositions ; Double consonants in assimilation ; Overview of assimilation; title: Stress and length. Inflection in Czech ; One-syllable prepositions ; Stressless words ; Other exceptions ; Secondary stress ; Application to music; title: Moravian, the dialect, and Slovak, the language. Moravian dialect ; The Slovak language; title: Czech vocal repertoire. Introduction to part two; title: Overview. Czech opera and choral music ; Czech art song; title: Bedřich Smetana : Mařenka's arias; title: Antonín Dvořák : Gypsy songs ; Love songs ; Biblical songs ; Mĕsíčku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the moon); title: Leoš Janáček : Slezské písne ; Moravská lidová poesie v písních ; Zápisník zmizelého (The diary of one who vanished) ; Scene with Jenůfa ; Scene with Krista ; Scene with Laca ; The forester's farewell; title: Bohuslav Martinů : Songs on one page; title: Pavel Haas : Čtyři písne na slova čínské poezie; title: Vítězslava Kaprálová : Jiskry z popele ; Navždy ; Sbohem a šáteček ; Smutný večer; title: Sylvie Bodorová : Sadaj, slnko, sadaj ; Jabloňový vlak; title: Appendix A. Publishers; title: Appendix B. Organizations; title: Appendix C. Czech Poets; title: Appendix D. Pronunciation checklist.