Alton/Jeffery | Bele Buche e Bele Parleure, book - Paperbound

TECLA 0056
Alton/Jeffery | Bele Buche e Bele Parleure, book
Paperbound

"Bele Buche e Bele Parleure" by Jeannine Alton and Brian Jeffery.
79 pages, first published by Tecla in 1976 at a size of 8' x 5".

Copies are in good condition for almost fifty years old. They sometimes have slight defects.

Bele Buche e Bele Parleure is a manual that Brian Jeffery published in 1976 in conjunction with Jeannine Alton. He describes her as "...a lovely lady who was his tutor in French philology when he was an undergraduate at Oxford" . Brian noted that singers didn’t know what to do about the pronunciation when confronted with medieval and Renaissance French music, so he did something about it.

Bele Buche e Bele Parleure shows you how to speak or sing medieval and Renaissance French. In Laurence Wright's 1978 review, he wrote that some of the philological details are debatable but nevertheless "the musician can be confident that use of the book will result in a pronunciation which is perfectly defensible, and sounds convincing". That may be philologically arguable but this book gives you something defensible and practical to work with when you sing or speak.

• Model: TECLA 0056
• Manufactured by: Tecla
• Condition: New