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How to Sing American

COMPOSER: Joyce Lucia
PUBLISHER: Mel Bay Publications
PRODUCT TYPE: Book and CD
INSTRUMENT GROUP: Vocal
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 toimprove their vocal technique, can benefit from this book. Through the use of
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Composer Joyce Lucia
Author Joyce Lucia
Publisher Mel Bay Publications
Instrumentation Vocal
Text language English
Product Type Book and CD
Instrument Group Vocal
Genre Tuition
ISBN 9780786662029
No. Pages 56
No. MB99584BCD
Description
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 toimprove 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 soundsdevoid 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.
Songlist
  • 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
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