Enunciation and Consonants

A lot of pop singing displays poor enunciation, that is, the words are not clearly articulated and the poem or text is lost, It often takes many hearings to determine the words being sung. Obviously this is being done as a stylistic choice in many cases; in others it is simply inadequate technique and the desire to sing overcomes the need to communicate a textual message. But in any kind of singing, whether it emphasize text or not, the greatest enunciation difficulties center around the articulation of consonants. Most well articulated consonants divide the sung vocal line into segments. The sung vocal line is created by connecting vowels together in as continuous a pattern as possible. ...

March 24, 2013 · 2 min · lloyd