The well-tempered announcer : a pronunciation guide to classical music / Robert A. Fradkin

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and indexes. Contents: Prelude -- A Tribute to WFOS-FM -- Overture -- Why This Guide? -- The Old ""Native vs. Anglicized"" Controversy -- Caveat Dictor -- Structure of the Book -- Limitations -- Transcription and other Basics -- Transcription Conventions -- Letter vs. Sound -- Options and Alternatives -- Which Phonetic Transcription? -- Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? -- Sound Symbols -- Vowels -- Consonants -- How to Read the Lists -- On Alphabetical Order -- What's in a Name? -- People and Places -- Of Firsts and Lasts -- Language, Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics -- More on Slash Designations -- Alphabetical List -- List by Language -- Armenian -- Bulgarian -- Chinese -- Czech and the Hacek Languages (Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Latvian) -- Note on Last Names -- Dutch and Flemish -- English -- Finnish and Estonian -- French -- German -- Greek -- Hungarian -- Italian -- Japanese -- Korean -- Latin -- Polish -- Note on Polish Last Names -- Portuguese -- Romanian -- Russian and Ukrainian -- Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) -- Spanish -- Five Interludes for Tongue and Larynx -- The Voicing Principle -- Two Kinds of Consonants -- Consonants on Paper and in the Mouth -- Some Terminology for Types of Sounds -- So-called Hard and Soft Consonants -- Flap, Catch, Shift -- Doubles and Dub Bulls -- Consonant Cluster Reprise -- Vowels in ""General European"" vs. English -- Vowels in the Mouth -- Other Vowel Sounds -- Of Diphthongs and Digraphs -- ""Long"" and ""Short"" -- ""Broad"" and ""Flat"" -- Shwa -- Stress Management -- Hints on Reading Key Signatures -- Letter and Sound in the Languages of Europe and East Asia -- General Remark on Accent Marks and Diacritics -- Romance Languages -- Latin -- Italian -- Romanian -- French -- Portuguese -- Spanish -- Germanic Languages -- English -- German -- Two Notes on Visual Impressions -- Note on Names, Letter, and Immigration -- Voicing Reprise -- Dutch and Flemish -- Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) -- Slavic and Baltic Languages -- On Language, Religion, and Alphabet -- Polish -- The Ha ek Languages (Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian; Lithuanian, Latvian) -- Russian-Ukrainian-Bulgarian -- A Guide to Russian Last and Middle Names -- Finno-Ugric and Other European Languages -- Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian -- From the Ends of Europe -- Albanian, Greek -- Turkish, Welsh, Irish -- East Asian languages -- Japanese and Korean -- Japanese Stress and Vowel Skipping -- Chinese -- Coda -- Diacritic Review -- Letter-to-Sound Review -- Sound-to-Letter Review -- The Palatal Challenge -- Finale -- Annotated Bibliography -- Names but no phonetics -- Names and phonetics -- General Transcription, Phonetics for Singers, etc. -- Indexes. Subjects: Music Terminology Pronunciation.Names, Personal Pronunciation. Musique Terminologie Prononciation.Noms de personnes Prononciation. Music Terminology Pronunciation.Names, Personal Pronunciation. Pronunciation. Music Terminology Pronunciation.