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• Backgroud information

• Italian alphabet and pronunciation
• Origins of the poems
• Instructions for teachers

• Lyrics

• Exercise 1a
• Exercise 1b
• Exercise 2a
• Exercise 2b
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4a
• Exercise 4b
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8a
• Exercise 8b
• Exercise 9a
• Exercise 9b
• Exercise 10a
• Exercise 10b
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 12
• Exercise 13a
• Exercise 13b
• Exercise 14
• Exercise 15

Lyrics

This section contains the lyrics to the songs in Metodo praticossa with background information. The Italian alphabet and instructions on pronunciation help you to understand the principles of phonetic transcript and pronunciation. Those interested can learn about the original context of Metastasio's poems. For teachers, instructions on how to rehearse the lyrics are included.

Each exercise has the original Italian lyrics in red, the phonetic transcript in green above, and a word-for-word translation into English in blue below. To make it easier for the reader to understand the poems, complete translations are included at the end.