Wednesday, November 17, 2010

More German Pronunciation help

Here is a link to a pdf document with a guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for German, and IPA transcriptions for the Bach Weihnachtsoratorium. (I disagree with the "vanishing vowel" chosen for the diphthongs - as explained in rehearsal...)

And here is a link to downloadable audio file (zipped) of the spoken German text. This is all six cantatas, so you'll have to go to Cantata No. 2 and select our four choruses.

If you just want to stream the files from the web, this link should soon (it's under construction) make the possible for you.

If you practice, you will improve - guaranteed!

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