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Diction and Rehearsal Resources for Concert Choir
These resources are provided for students currently enrolled in Concert Choir at SPU.
      Resources are provided as pdf image files since few people will have an IPA font available for a text document.
      
All documents © 2002 to be used by permission only.


Diction and IPA Guide   - Use in conjuction with the following phonetic spellings.
       Print these pages first for reference.
       Diction/IPA page 1
       Diction/IPA page 2
      
Phonetic spellings   - click link for pdf file on specific literature.
       Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland - Scheidt (IPA) [German]
      
       Blagri - Mocnick (IPA) [Slovene]
            Blagri spoken - this is a sound file - the text spoken by native speaker (need Real One Player)
            Slovene diction guide - a summary of rules FYI
      
       Church Slavonic Guide - for the Gretchaninoff piece, the score contains a phonetic spelling. Please use this guide to help with symbols and sounds used.
      
       Diction for other works are either 1) contained in score; 2) will be covered in class; or 3) are not needed at this time.
      




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Contact David Anderson: (206) 281-2903
dand@spu.edu