Italian Diction | A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French (2024)

Italian Diction | A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French (1) A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French (3rd edn)

David Adams

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2022

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9780197639542

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Adams, David, 'Italian Diction', A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French, 3rd edn (New York, 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Sept. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197639504.003.0002, accessed 4 Aug. 2024.

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This chapter presents the sounds of Italian: vowels, consonants, and glides, along with the relevant phonetic symbols. It explains diacritical marks, vowel length, syllabification, word stress, and apocopation. There is extensive discussion of diphthongs and triphthongs, both within words and across words boundaries (phrasal diphthongs). Double consonants and phrasal doubling across word boundaries are presented in detail. There are examples of words with translations and phonetic transcriptions, as well as musical examples. Problems specific to singing are discussed, such as proper value of vowels in diphthongs and triphthongs and how to execute double consonants and consonant clusters. Resources for Italian and sample vocal texts with phonetic transcriptions and translations are provided. There are exercises interspersed throughout the chapter. Following the main chapter is an appendix, primarily meant as a reference, that discusses the two sounds each for the letters e and o in Italian, the open sound and the close sound.

Keywords: diction, lyric diction, Italian, classical singing, phonetics, International Phonetic Alphabet

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Applied Music Music Theory and Analysis

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A Handbook of Diction for Singers. David Adams, Oxford University Press (2022). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197639504.003.0002

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