DICTION FOR SINGERS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Reinforce lyric diction skills in Italian, German, and French. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) system in Italian, German, and French. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Explore the rules that guide the non-native speaker’s understanding of the target language pronunciation and features that distinguish spoken and sung diction. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate accurate and stylistic pronunciation both in and out of the context of a song or aria. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply diction technique and proper use of articulators for classical singing. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. 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. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Demonstrate accurate and stylistic pronunciation in the assigned foreign language. Audience: Graduate 8. Apply accurate International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription of the text. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Reinforce lyric diction skills in Italian, German, and French. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) system in Italian, German, and French. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Explore the rules that guide the non-native speaker’s understanding of the target language pronunciation and features that distinguish spoken and sung diction. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate accurate and stylistic pronunciation both in and out of the context of a song or aria. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply diction technique and proper use of articulators for classical singing. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. 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. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Demonstrate accurate and stylistic pronunciation in the assigned foreign language. Audience: Graduate 8. Apply accurate International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription of the text. Audience: Graduate