The Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical Music

Contents

• Prelude
• A Tribute to WFOS-FM
• Other Acknowledgments
• Overture
• Why This Guide?
• The Old "Native vs. Anglicized" Controversy
• Caveat Dictor
• Structure of the Book
• Suggestions for Using The Book
• Limitations
• Movement 1. 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
• Movement 2. Alphabetical List
• Movement 3. List By Language
• Armenian
• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Czech and the Hacek Languages
• (Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenia, 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
• Interlude 1. The Voicing Principle
• Two Kinds of Consonants
• Interlude 2. 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
• Interlude 3. Vowels in "General European" vs. English
• Vowels in the Mouth
• Other Vowel Sounds
• Of Diphthongs and Digraphs
• "Long" and "Short"
• "Broad" and "Flat"
• Shwa
• Interlude 4. Stress Management
• Interlude 5. Hints on Reading Key Signatures
• Movement 4. 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, Letters, and Immigration
• Voicing Reprise
• Dutch and Flemish
• Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)
• Slavic and Baltic Languages
• On Language, Religion, and Alphabet
• Polish
• The Hacek 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
• South-to-Letter Review
• The Palatal Challenge
• Finale. Annotated Bibliography
• I. Names but no phonetics
• II. Names and phonetics
• III. General Transcription, Phonetics for Singers, etc.
• Indexes