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German Diction for English-speaking singersGerman Diction for English-speaking singers
By Jacqueline Pischorn

Exhaustively prepared, as an invaluable practice book and ready reference. Part I deals with specific sounds of the German language which are common to English sounds. It includes German pronunciation of Latin, rules governing the pronunciation of compound words, photographs to show mouth positions, an enclosed CD-rom has 282 tracks of declaimed examples...

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Felton's FelonyFelton's Felony and other Portsmouth stories
By Antonia Hilder
Illustrated by Janet Jackson

Seven stories giving fictional accounts of factual events in Old Portsmouth, initially designed for children but enjoyed by all ages. The first edition, published in 2009, sold out in three months; this second edition is revised and expanded. with lots of line-drawings by Janet Jackson, plus maps and other illustrations....

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Donizetti's SongsDonizetti's Songs written in the bass clef
by John Stewart Allitt, Iris Dell'Acqua, Sally Thomas and Ian Caddy

Complete texts and translations into English; historical notes and music analyses; appendices on Donizetti's piano, singing style and technical details of the songs

(a limited edition produced by The Mayr+Donizetti Collaboration)...

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Compositions for MayrMayr - a contemporary biography
by Adolfo Gustavo Maironi Daponte

"Componimenti per il settantesimo ottavio natalizio del celebre maestro Gio. Simone Mayr"
(Compositions for the seventy-eighth birthday of the celebrated maestro Giovanni Simone Mayr)

A complete re-setting of the 1841 original Italian, comprising a biography of Mayr (with an account of his trip back to Bavaria in 1838), Mayr's catalogue of works to 1827, with translations alongside, into English and German. The 'componimenti' - poetic eulogies to the composer - are not translated but are included as in the original, for scholars of Mayr...

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