Welcome to SingersBabel!

A free educational resource maintained by Berkshire Choral International.

 

 

 

 

THE lyric diction resource to help you improve your diction when singing in
English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, or Church Slavonic.
 

 Gain greater confidence with text when in rehearsals and coachings.

 

 

SingersBabel offers tools to help you learn the meaning and pronunciation of texts found in art songs, oratorios, and secular and sacred choral music. Hear a native speaker reciting the text while seeing the original text, word-for-word English translation, and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Guide in the BabelGuide™. All tools are available in the Library. You'll find works such as:

 

Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem   Bernstein - Chichester Psalms (mvt1)  
Schubert - Der Musensohn   Various Composers - Requiem Mass (mvt 1)  
Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine   Lauridsen - Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses)  

 

LET'S GET STARTED! 

Register and create a free account with SingersBabel (Register, upper right corner). Check your email for an activation link and activate your account. Login using the credentials you created. Go to Library/Using the Website and learn how the Library works. Then click on Library and get to work!

                              

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