Joyce Lucia: How to Sing American
Pronunciation for Jazz, Rock, R&B and Other Non-Classical Singers
- Author: Lucia, Joyce
Sheet Music & Audio
$25.75Contents
- How to Sing American
- How to use this book
- Symbols used in this book
- The IPA Vowel Triangle
- Vowel Triangle mouth positions
- The "R" Pages
- Removing the Silent "E"
- Syllabification
- More syllabification
- How to write lyrics for IPA analysis
- Part I - Vowels
- Diction Quiz - vowels
- Comparison
- Comparison of all vowels
- Differences from dictionary for singers
- Diphthongs
- Diphthong Review
- Comparison of All Diphthongs
- American Diction Checkup
- Part II - Consonants
- Differences from Classical singing
- How to Work on the Consonants
- Consonant Schedule
- Consonants I
- Consonants II
- Consonants III
- Consonant Combinations with "r"
- Classwork on consonants
- Voiced and Unvoiced Consonants
- Appendix
- How to Sing American CD
- Song Lyrics in IPA
- IPA fonts
- Answers to diction quiz p. 32
- Answers to American diction checkup p. 44