DICTION

Summer MM in Choral Conducting at Simpson College

​

Diction 1: Italian, French, and German (Summer 2019, 2021, 2023)

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 2020, 2022, 2024)

Required Text: 

Helpful Online Resources:

Other Collections of Links:

UNT Diction Resources


General Multi-Language Dictionaries:

Word Reference Online Dictionary
Collins Online Dictionary
Reverso Online Dictionary
Google Translate
 
Pronunciation Databases:
 
Forvo Pronunciation Dictionary
To Phonetics English Pronunciation
English Phonetic Translator

IPA  and Linguistics Resources:

IPA Organization
Wikipedia page on IPA
Interactive IPA Chart
IPA Source Song Transcriptions
IPA NOW Translation Software
Omniglot

Venetian-Italian Dictionaries:

El Galepin Venetian-Italian Dictionary
Glosbe Venetian-Italian Dictionary

German Dictionaries

Duden German Dictionary
German Verb Conjugation Dictionary
DictCC German and English Dictionary

Literature Vendors

Earthsongs (Ron Jeffers Translations and Annotations)