MUSC602

Advanced Italian Lyric Diction

Restriction: Must be in one of the following programs (Music - Doctoral (Doctoral); Music - Master (Master's)) . And permission of instructor; or admission to graduate voice program. Concepts, strategies and techniques for singing operatic and song literature in Italian: syllabification, vowels, stressed and unstressed syllables, dipthongs, glides and elisions, single and double consonants with emphasis on current performance practices.