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Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse
Clive Brooks
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Description for Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse
Paperback. This book and CD enables students to read Latin poetry aloud with confidence. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174 x 21. Weight in Grams: 706.
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 is 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 ... Read more
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 is 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521697408
SKU
V9780521697408
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About Clive Brooks
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.
Reviews for Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse
'This book is a labor of love by an inspired autodidact. Even those with no special interest in recitation will enjoy the anthology of passages. It will be valuable to classicists like myself who want to explore later Latin, to singers, and to lovers of Latin poetry everywhere.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review