Title: Phonetic transcription for lyric diction
Description: "Phonetic Transcription for Lyric Diction offers an efficient approach to the study of Italian, German, French, and Latin transcription. It is second in a two-part series. Phonetic Readings for Lyric Diction is the introductory text. Together, these workbooks address enunciation and transcription respectively. Italian, German, French, and Latin enunciation rules with English rules for transcription are established in part one so that students are adequately prepared for the rigorous approach to transcription provided in part two. This text is the expanded version of Phonetic Transcription for Lyric Diction. It contains an additional 10 units to cover English transcription. The word lists in this text were generated from the lyrics of more than 6,000 art songs. Lyric words were organized in order of frequency of occurrence and categorized according to Italian, German, French, Latin, and English speech sounds as defined by the International Phonetic Alphabet. Worksheets were created from the word lists and arranged according to a strategic order of rules. This design streamlines the approach to teaching lyric diction and allows the instructor to cover transcription in an efficient manner"--Preface, v
Subjects: Singing, Diction, English language, Pronunciation, Italian language, French language, German language, Latin language, Chant, Italien (Langue), Prononciation, Français (Langue), Allemand (Langue), Latin (Langue)