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Timothy Cheek, Anna Toccafondi Perfect Italian Diction for Singers

An Authoritative Guide

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

2022

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Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how to overcome those issues. In addition to delving to the heart of Italian sounds and inflection, they present controversies, misconceptions, and various approachesoften conflictingthat have arisen throughout the last century. Chapters also address:Italian style and legatoBest use of supplemental resources and dictionariesRecitative with suggested, short Mozart excerptsWorking with textSinging diphthongs, triphthongs, and hiatus Also included are a plethora of audio and video examples and exercises (over seventy QR codes), exercises for group or self-study, and self-assessment summaries. This book will help singers and students lay a solid foundation in beautiful, lyric Italian.

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