SINGER'S DICTION

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DICTION FOR SINGERS AMAZON STORE

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The International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A) is a very useful tool for singers to

use,  when learning to pronounce foreign language texts of songs and arias.

I've provided links to web sites as well as some books for study.  The rules for

singer's diction sometimes vary from spoken diction.

ALTA VISTA TRANSLATIONS

Need to translate your arias?

Whether you are translating an aria or a full web page, you

can past your text or the url into Babel Fish, choose the language,

and presto - you have your translation.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOUNDS

OF LANGUAGES BY PETER lADEFOGED
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/

VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html

THE DICTION DOMAIN:
This is a great web site by  Yvonne DeChance
and Candice Magner
http://www.scaredofthat.com/dictiondomain/

DISTINCTIVE VOWELS SOUNDS OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH

http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/

FREE TRANSLATION

http://www.freetranslation.com/

GERMAN PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE

http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/

JUST AS SPOKEN

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION TOOL

http://www.bergsoft.de/english/index.html

INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET:  DOWLOADABLE FONTS
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=encore-ipa&_sc=1

IPA SOUCE.COM

BARD SUVERKROP'S wonderful site with

IPA transcriptions of songs and arias.

http://www.ipasource.com

ITALIAN PRONUNCIATION

http://italian.about.com/od/pronunciation/

LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS:
On line resources
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

LEARN SPANISH

http://www.studyspanish.com/

LYRIC LANGUAGES

Multimedia presentation by the Lottie Lehmann Foundation

http://www.art-song.net/lehmann/presentation/

RESOURCES FOR STUDYING FRENCH

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/french.html

STUDYING PHONETICS ON THE INTERNET

Many useful sources for study.

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html

SINGING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

http://www.vocalist.org.uk/singing_languages.html

VOWEL CHART

http://www.thedialectcoach.com/vowelchart.html


Castel, Nico
A SINGER'S MANUAL OF
SPANISH DICTION.
New York: Excalibur Publishing, 1994. 
0-0627226-9-3

 
Coffin, Berton
PHONETIC READINGS
OF SONGS AND ARIAS.
Metuchen, NJ: the Scarecrow Press, 1992
Transcriptions for IPA of songs and arias.
0-8108-1533-8

 

Colorni, Evelina
Singer's Italian: a manual of diction
and phonetics.
New York, G. Schirmer, 1970 vol 2, n401

Grubb, Thomas
Singing in French: a manual of
French diction and French vocal repertoire.
Uses IPA
New York, G. Schirmer Books, 1979
0-02-870790-7 v02,n123

Marshall, Madeline
The Singer's Manual of English Diction.
New York, Schirmer Books, 1953
ISBN: 0028711009

 

INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET FOR SINGERS:
A Manual for English and
Foreign Language Diction.
Dallas, Pst. Inc., 1989
IBSN: 1087761-5008
1 (800) 284-7043

 

Moriaty, John
DICTION: Italian, Latin, French,
German: Sounds and Exercises for Singing.
E.C. Schirmer Music Co. 1978
V08.n083

On-Line Phonology course
Centre for English Language Teaching
Stirling University

http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/STEPHEN/PHONO/VOWEL/VOWEL.HTM

PHONETIC READINGS OF SONGS AND ARIAS

By Bertron Coffin

 

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