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How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
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Topic: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
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Bob
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How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
on: August 11, 2013, 03:53:52 AM
Is there a correct or a typically incorrect way of pronouncing it?
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Re: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
Reply #1 on: August 11, 2013, 04:17:17 AM
While in doubt say Musica.
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Re: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
Reply #2 on: August 11, 2013, 04:28:07 AM
Is it moosic? Mewsic? Like a cat meow? Or is that wrong? I thought pure vowels were the goal.
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Re: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
Reply #3 on: August 11, 2013, 05:22:19 AM
Oh, well for what I have heard back in school it is Mew-zic. Like a cat indeed.
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Re: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
Reply #4 on: August 11, 2013, 03:18:56 PM
Hm. Is there a standard way for handling dipthongs? Fast Me- so you get to the too faster and hold that sound out? It can't be meeeee-oooo-sic, right? The mew part should be kind of like a grace note, crushed on the beat, right?
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Re: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
Reply #5 on: August 11, 2013, 03:21:33 PM
Get the book, "a singers manual of English diction" and stop guessing one letter at a time...
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Re: How should you pronounce the word music while singing?
Reply #6 on: August 12, 2013, 02:24:26 AM
Its pronunciation depends on where within your register it is being sung - it might need to be modified. It also depends on what a director thinks s/he wants to hear, and whether you are in a group setting or singing solo. It also depends on what language you're singing in. Basically, it depends. I don't remember ever singing the word, but I'm sure I have at some point.
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