Diction for Singers
Covers Italian, German, and French diction for vocal music and IPA transcription.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.75 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Reinforce lyric diction skills in Italian, German, and French.
Apply the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) system in Italian, German, and French.
Explore the rules that guide the non-native speaker’s understanding of the target language pronunciation and features that distinguish spoken and sung diction.
Demonstrate accurate and stylistic pronunciation both in and out of the context of a song or aria.
Apply diction technique and proper use of articulators for classical singing.
Train your ear to recognize accurate and inaccurate diction in your own and others’ singing and identify strategies for correcting pronunciation according to the underlying problem.
Demonstrate accurate and stylistic pronunciation in the assigned foreign language.
Apply accurate International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription of the text.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.75 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
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Topics
- Italian, German, and French diction
- IPA transcription
- Spoken vs. sung diction
- Articulators for classical singing
Skills
- Lyric diction in Italian, German, and French
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription
- Rules for spoken and sung diction
- Diction technique and articulator use for classical singing
- Auditory recognition and correction of diction
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