Reading Latin Poetry Aloud A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse

Name: Reading Latin Poetry Aloud A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse
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ISBN: 9780521874496

ISBN-10: 0521874491

ISBN-13: 9780521874496

Edition: 2007

Authors: Clive Brooks

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Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It establishes a practical working pronunciation for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Latin by means of a detailed analysis of the essential known facts, and it develops and explains a clear and practical system of phonetic notation, based upon the International Phonetic Alphabet. A substantial number of poems and extracts from all periods are offered for practice. Issues relevant to both quantitative and rhythmical prosody are fully discussed and translation notes are supplied to aid the student. Each poem is fully transcribed into phonetics and is…

Book details

List price: $107.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2007
Pages: 332
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Clive Brooks studied music at Cambridge and taught music and English as a foreign language until his retirement. He has had a lifelong interest in Latin poetry.



Introduction



Measuring up



The sounds of Classical Latin



Classical prosody and the dactylic hexameter



The elegiac couplet



Iambics



Aeolic verse



The sounds of Medieval Latin



Medieval hexameters



Other quantitative metres



Medieval vowels and rhythmical verse



Medieval rhythms I



Medieval rhythms II



Early Modern pronunciation



Renaissance verse I



Renaissance verse II


Postscript: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries


Glossary of terms


Appendices