MUSC603

Advanced German 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 German: single and double consonants, the use of the glottal, the German closed (e) and (o) vowels, the "schwa" and consonant clusters. Mastery of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as it applies to "Hochdeutsch" will be expected.