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Vp: The Singer's Dilemma, Tone Versus Diction ArticleVp: The Singer's Dilemma, Tone Versus Diction Article
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City University of New York
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9th - 10th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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1110L
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Vp: The Singer's Dilemma, Tone Versus Diction

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Shirley Emmons is a noted teacher of singing. Her website has a number of essays devoted to singing technique. This article is an in depth discussion of the age old problem of balancing beautiful tone with the need to sing words that can be understood.

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Concepts

consonants, diction, vowels

Additional Tags

singing technique, singing voice, studied artifice, the singing voice, vocal pedagogy, vocal technique, william vennard, vocal performance

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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