Episodes
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Episode 115-SDU Tutorial (audio)
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
In this episode, Jason Nedecky is back to talk about unstressed vowels, the consonant cluster 'str', and triphthongs, using Purcell’s "Strike the viol".
The Diction Police website offers phonetic transcripts of texts, with word-for-word and poetic translations, text readings by native speaking opera professionals, along with a variety of video tutorials that are useful for both professional singers and for teachers to supplement their diction classes. The Diction Police was founded on the principal of native speakers pronouncing and discussing the diction of their own languages, and we continuously strive to offer the highest quality lyric diction resource possible.
Over the past 9 years of the podcast, we’ve now comprehensively covered the four main singing languages as well as many others, so from now on we’ll be releasing new episodes less regularly and only cover special topics, such as rare languages and dialects. All the previous episodes of the podcast will be available on iTunes and at the website, and all of our other resources and materials will still be available on the website through individual and studio subscriptions and now also through university library subscriptions!
Talk to your teacher about getting a subscription for your school or inquire for more information at info@dictionpolice.com
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Episode 115-SDU Tutorial
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
In this episode, Jason Nedecky is back to talk about unstressed vowels, the consonant cluster 'str', and triphthongs, using Purcell’s "Strike the viol".
The Diction Police website offers phonetic transcripts of texts, with word-for-word and poetic translations, text readings by native speaking opera professionals, along with a variety of video tutorials that are useful for both professional singers and for teachers to supplement their diction classes. The Diction Police was founded on the principal of native speakers pronouncing and discussing the diction of their own languages, and we continuously strive to offer the highest quality lyric diction resource possible.
Over the past 9 years of the podcast, we’ve now comprehensively covered the four main singing languages as well as many others, so from now on we’ll be releasing new episodes less regularly and only cover special topics, such as rare languages and dialects. All the previous episodes of the podcast will be available on iTunes and at the website, and all of our other resources and materials will still be available on the website through individual and studio subscriptions and now also through university library subscriptions!
Talk to your teacher about getting a subscription for your school or inquire for more information at info@dictionpolice.com
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Diction Tip #33
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Since the podcast comes out every two weeks, on the off-weeks we post Diction Tips--very short tutorials focusing on a specific topic in Lyric Diction.
In Diction Tip #33, Jason Nedecky talks about the long vowels that occur in British Received Pronunciation and explains why we don't need to mark them in phonetic transcripts.
For more Diction Tips visit the videos section of our Facebook page or you can find all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips and Tongue Twisters for Singers at www.dictionpolice.com!
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Episode 114-SDU Tutorial (audio)
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
In Episode 114, Jason Nedecky leads us through the text to Purcell's "What can we poor females do?", talking about long vowels, the Daniel Sitteth rule, and the difference between the [ʌ] vowel and [ə].
For more information, go to dictionpolice.com !
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Episode 114-SDU Tutorial
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
In Episode 114, Jason Nedecky leads us through the text to Purcell's "What can we poor females do?", talking about long vowels, the Daniel Sitteth rule, and the difference between the [ʌ] vowel and [ə].
For more information, go to dictionpolice.com !
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Diction Tip #31
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Since the podcast comes out every two weeks, on the off-weeks we post Diction Tips--very short tutorials focusing on a specific topic in Lyric Diction.
In Diction Tip #31, François Germain interviews Ellen Rissinger about the [æ] vowel in English lyric diction.
For more Diction Tips visit the videos section of our Facebook page or you can find all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips and Tongue Twisters for Singers at www.dictionpolice.com!
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Episode 102-SDU Tutorial (audio version)
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Since it's Messiah season, we wanted to post another aria for the basses! Jason Nedecky works through the text to "The people that walked in darkness" and it's preceding recitative, with an emphasis on handling 'r', the [æ] vowel, and aspirate 't'. This is the audio version of the video tutorial.
For more information, go to dictionpolice.com
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Episode 102-SDU Tutorial
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Saturday Nov 04, 2017
Since it's Messiah season, we wanted to post another aria for the basses! Jason Nedecky works through the text to "The people that walked in darkness" and it's preceding recitative, with an emphasis on handling 'r', the [æ] vowel, and aspirate 't'.
For more information, go to dictionpolice.com
Saturday Oct 07, 2017
Episode 100-IPA Revealed: an audio guide
Saturday Oct 07, 2017
Saturday Oct 07, 2017
For our 100th episode we wanted to do something really special, and here it is! In "IPA Revealed: an audio-guide" we work our way through the phonetic alphabet, with examples of native speakers in each of the four main languages that we sing in, English, Italian, German, and French. Both Ellen and François host the episode, with guests Christoph Pohl, Daniela Pellegrino, and Grace Durham. There is no audio version of the podcast this week.
To see our complete catalog of text readings by native speakers and PDFs with IPA transcriptions, poetic and word-for-word-translations, as well as all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips, and Tongue Twisters for Singers, go to dictionpolice.com
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
Diction Tip #20
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
Since the podcast comes out every two weeks, on the off-weeks we post Diction Tips--very short tutorials focusing on a specific topic in Lyric Diction.
In Diction Tip #20, Ellen Rissinger talks about shadow vowels in English Lyric Diction.
For more Diction Tips visit the videos section of our Facebook page or you can find all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips and Tongue Twisters for Singers at www.dictionpolice.com!