Sounding the Voice: Utterance, Phonetics

Sounding the Voice: Utterance, Phonetics, Advanced
Diction, Articulation and Sense.
This course is an intermediate study of language
and phonology for singers and other artists who
work with the voice. It focuses on phonetics and
language-like sounds ranging from utterances to
allophones and from phonemes to words and
word-like inventions, covering nearly all
language-type sounds [consonants and vowels]
thought capable of being produced by the human
vocal mechanism. The International Phonetic
Alphabet (IPA) is used intensively as a tool for
reading and transcribing linguistic sounds and for
notating vocal quality and laryngeal positions
used in speech, singing, and foreign language
diction. Sound symbolism and nonsensical sounds,
artificially invented languages, and language
change and reconstruction also will be studied.
Sound poetry and works in foreign languages will
be performed or composed.
This course is geared towards students who have
had prior experience with linguistics and/or
foreign languages and/or the IPA. A good "ear"
will be helpful.