Welcome to the home page for MUSC 1761: Diction I. This course is the beginning of the Music Department's three-semester course sequence in lyric diction for singers and is a pre-requisite for enrollment in either of the other two semesters. It is offered every Fall semester and normally should be taken in the Fall of a voice student's first year at CSU. The course provides an introduction to phonetics and the International Phonetic Alphabet and covers pronunciation and phonetic transcription of Ecclesiastical (Roman Church) Latin and standard (Tuscan) Italian.
Click here for a link to the course syllabus.