Lucia, Joyce - How to Sing American
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Lucia, Joyce - How to Sing American

Catalogue No: MLB99584BCD
ArrangementVocal
ComposerJoyce Lucia
Product FormatSheet Music/CD
£16.99
Typically dispatched in 2-3 working days
LanguageEnglish
Pages56
ISBN9780786662029 (0786662026)

This book teaches non-classical or pop-style singers how to pronounce lyrics in American English. Its primary audience is singers with English as a second language, but all singers of pop music, and indeed anyone wishing to improve their vocal technique, can benefit from this book. Through the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, which assigns a specific symbol to each consonant and vowel sound, singers can immediately produce American sounds devoid of any local accents. Each sound is taught through a list of several practice words, photographs of mouth positions, and examples on the accompanying CD.

Contents

  1. How to Sing American
  2. How to use this book
  3. Symbols used in this book
  4. The IPA Vowel Triangle
  5. Vowel Triangle mouth positions
  6. "The ""R"" Pages"
  7. "Removing the Silent ""E"""
  8. Syllabification
  9. More syllabification
  10. How to write lyrics for IPA analysis
  11. Part I - Vowels
  12. Diction Quiz - vowels
  13. Comparison
  14. Comparison of all vowels
  15. Differences from dictionary for singers
  16. Diphthongs
  17. Diphthong Review
  18. Comparison of All Diphthongs
  19. American Diction Checkup
  20. Part II - Consonants
  21. Differences from Classical singing
  22. How to Work on the Consonants
  23. Consonant Schedule
  24. Consonants I
  25. Consonants II
  26. Consonants III
  27. "Consonant Combinations with ""r"""
  28. Classwork on consonants
  29. Voiced and Unvoiced Consonants
  30. Appendix
  31. How to Sing American CD
  32. Song Lyrics in IPA
  33. IPA fonts
  34. Answers to diction quiz p. 32
  35. Answers to American diction checkup p. 44
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