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Making a simple International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)—For singers, conductors and composers (2023)

Bas Ammerlaan
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This research develops a simplification of a graphical resource: the International Phonetic Alphabet. The choices made to simplify it are based on an analysis of existing diction methods. The thesis format seemed most suitable for my research, as the IPA is a graphical notation method which is meant to be used by writing it down. (While it is of course used to notate sounds, these sounds themselves are not actually the focus of the research. There are also already an abundance of audio examples for the IPA symbols.) The IPA can be a very useful aid for classical singers, from ensemble singers to soloists, but appears intimidating from the amount of symbols it has. This research looks at which IPA symbols are used and which are not used in five different diction methods for classical singers. These are systematically analysed and presented graphically to the reader to help visualise which of all the symbols presented on the IPA chart are regularly used by singers. The end result is practical in nature: a Simple IPA chart which uses only those symbols a classical singer really needs to sing the five main languages for classical singing: English, French, German, Italian and Latin.
typeresearch exposition
keywordschoir, choir singing, classical singing, classical singer, Composer, Language, notation, singing, diction, international phonetic alphabet, IPA, phonemes, phonetic transcription, pronunciation
date20/02/2023
published16/05/2023
last modified16/05/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyright2023
licenseCC BY
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1967201/1967202
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue1. Master Research Projects


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