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DICTION
Summer MM in Choral Conducting at Simpson College
Diction 1: Italian, French, and German (Summer 2019, 2022, 2024)
Required Text:Adams, David Adams. A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French. Oxford: Oxford University, 2008.
Diction 2: Latin, Spanish, and Russian (Summer 2021, 2023, 2025)
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