Tradução e adaptação fonética: a tradução do capítulo 8 de The Art of Accompanying and Coaching de Kurt Adler

Abstract

German language is included in singing and in the catalogs of Bachelor’s Degree in Singing at public universities in Brazil, mainly Lied, a musical genre of German Classicism and Romantism. According to Rocha (2012), singing is different than speaking, and as stated by Mainhard and Rosa (2023), teaching diction for singing in foreign languages is taken to Brazilian singers through a literature made firstly for and English public. In this background, the translation of two chapters of Kurt Adler’s book intend to contribute with to the teaching of diction for Brazilian singers while it also compares phonetics systems of German, Portuguese and English; and it uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as phonetic transcription. Borba (1975) contributes with the relation between written language and spoken language within phonetics scripts, and the relation between translation and music is mentioned with the contributions of Costa and Silva-Reis (2020). With the translation presented, it is possible to note how languages deal with their phonetic systems in different ways and they have sound differences even if they have similar graphic symbols.