Timothy Cheek's revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to
Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying
audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of
2001 that set "a new and very welcome high standard for teaching
lyric diction," according to Notes: The Journal of the Music
Library Association. It offers users updated information, important
clarifications, and expanded repertoire in a more accessible,
easier to use format. Singing in Czech is divided into two parts.
Using IPA, the first part takes the reader systematically through
each sound of the Czech language, enhanced by recordings of native
Czech opera singers. Chapters cover the Czech vowels, consonants,
rules of assimilation, approaches to singing double consonants,
stress and length, Moravian dialect, and an introduction to singing
in Slovak. Fine points of formal pronunciation have been clarified
in this revised edition. In the second part, Cheek offers a
thorough overview of Czech art song, expanded from the first
edition. Texts to major song literature and opera excerpts by
Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu, and Haas, with timings,
editions, word-for-word translations, idiomatic translations, and
IPA transcriptions follow. In this revision, Cheek has included
additional cycles by Dvorak and Martinu, and two new chapters on
Czech female composers Vitezslava Kapralova and Sylvie Bodorova.
This revised edition of Singing in Czech is useful for all those
who are interested and engaged in the performance of the rich Czech
vocal repertoire.
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