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The article elaborates the Italian vowel clusters and clusters at the phrasal level in singing. The clusters of more than two vowels and clusters at the phrasal level are viewed as combinations or extensions of categories including falling diphthong, rising diphthong, hiatus, unstressed diphthong, and orthographic clusters that result in a single pure vowel. It discusses the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to illustrate the spirit and method involved when deciding upon specifics of text underlay with lexical and phrasal vowel clusters.

The article provides information on consonant clusters in German language. The author notes that many consonant clusters surpass syllable and word boundaries in which lengthy clusters are encountered particularly in German language. She stresses that the tendency for compound words in German language creates various combinations within polysyllabic words wherein some of them replicate the phoneme combinations of syllable-interior clusters. Furthermore, German consonants have the ability to express strong emotional states and dramatic moments while German opera and poetry contain articulative challenges in singing.

The article discusses the German consonant clusters which are useful in studying music. It focuses on the two distinct groups of consonants which include syllable-interior and cross syllable or word boundaries. It presents a tabular form of cluster environments of German and English, which could be useful to consider all the consonantal combinations that are admissible in each language. It is indicated that some clusters conform to the phonotactic rules of the language, but are very rarely employed or completely absent from the lexis.