Item Detail
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Barber, Josephine
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Fisher-Dieskau, Dietrich, foreword
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German for musicians
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Book
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Bloomington, Ind.
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c1985
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Indiana University Press
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277 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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025321260X (pbk.); 0253325714 (hard)
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German language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English Music--Terminology.
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Musicians; Musicians; Germany; United States
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ML 108 .B37 G47 1985
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Barber, Josephine. German for Musicians. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
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To help music students and musicians learn basic German. Useful for performing music, studying music, or going to a German-speaking country.
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Covers German pronunciation, conversational German, texts on musical subjects, and poetry from Lieder.
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Organized in four sections: 1- A pronunciation guide. 2- Twenty lessons. The first ten lessons are a survival course for visitors to German-speaking countries. They cover pronunciation and conversational German. Lessons 10-20 introduce texts on musical subjects. 3- Texts, including letters written by composers and texts from important musical works. Good for practice in translation. Each text includes footnotes that give translations of a handful of difficult terms. 4- Reference, which includes musical vocabulary, a specimen letter for an Opera singer, the Gothic alphabet, a summary of grammar, a bibliography, and an index to grammar.
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Incorporates real texts from the music. Explanations of grammar are clear and simple.
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Koprowski, Richard. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 42 (June 1986): 786.http://www.jstor.org/stable/897796
Central Opera 26, no. 3 (1985-86): 75.
Forbes, Elizabeth. Musical Times 126 (October 1985): 605.http://www.jstor.org/stable/964921
Whitton, Kenneth. Music and Letters 67 (October 1986): 424-25.http://www.jstor.org/stable/735160
Sjoerdsma, Richard Dale. National Association of Teachers of Singing Journal 44, no. 5 (1988): 30-31. -
BYU Mus Ref
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2550