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• Title:A handbook of diction for singers : Italian, German, French / David Adams.
  
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• Author/Creator:Adams, David, 1950-
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: MT883 .A23 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Singing--Diction.
  Italian language--Pronunciation.
  French language--Pronunciation.
  German language--Pronunciation.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xix, 227 p. : music ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780195325591 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780195325584 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Italian Diction
  Introduction
  International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols for Italian
  Italian Vowels
  Specific Vowel Sounds in Italian
  Glides in Italian: /j/ and /w/
  Italian Diacritical Marks
  Italian Syllabification
  Italian Word Sress
  Apocopation
  Italian Diphthongs
  Italian Triphthongs
  Phrasal Diphthongs and Triphthongs
  Vowel Length in Italian
  Italian Consonants
  Consonant Combinations and Their Sounds
  Single and Double Consonants in Italian
  Characteristics of Double Consonants
  More About Vowels
  Ambiguous Spellings: Is It a Vowel or a Glide?
  Phrasal Doubling in Italian
  Articulating Italian Double Consonants in Singing
  Singing Consonant Clusters
  Musical Settings of Italian Diphthongs
  Italian Diphthongs: Vowel Distribution in Singing
  Musical Settings of Italian Triphthongs
  Singing Phrasal Diphthongs and Triphthongs
  Vowel Distribution in Singing Phrasal Diphthongs
  Patterns of Phrasal Triphthongs in Italian
  Italian Word Underlay in Scores
  Other Possible Assimilations of n
  Italian Dictionaries
  Sample Texts
  App. Guidelines for Determining Open and Closed c and o in the Stressed Syllable
  German Diction
  Introduction
  International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols for German
  Umlaut
  Word Origin: Germanic and Non-Germanic
  German Vowels and Vowel Length
  Word Stem, Word Stress, Vowel Length
  Specific Vowel Sounds in German
  Diphthongs and Adjacent Vowels
  Glide /j/
  German Consonants
  More about Syllabic Stress and Vowel Length
  More about German Word Structure
  Certain Consonant Clusters and Vowel Quality
  German Monosyllablic (Some Polysyllabic) Word Patterns for Vowel Quality and Length
  Words of Non-Germanic Origin
  Glottal Separation in German
  Glottal Separation versus Legato Connection in Singing German
  Phrasal Consonant Clusters in German
  Possible Assimilation of Consonant Sounds in German
  German Dictionaries and Pronunciation Reference Books
  Sample Texts
  French Diction
  Introduction
  International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols for French
  French Diacritical Marks
  Definition of Terms Relating to French Diction
  French Syllabification
  Word Stress in French
  Vowel Length in French
  French Vowel Sounds and How They Are Spelled
  Mixed Vowels
  Nasal Vowels
  Glides in French
  French Consonants
  Liaison
  Musical Settings of Mute e [schwa]
  Musical Settings of Glides
  French Dictionaries
  Sample Texts.