Course Outline - MUS 402y/510y Vocal Pedagogy (2005/06)

Don Wright Faculty of Music - University of Western Ontario

Fridays 09:30 - 11:00 in TC100 Talbot College (NB venue change!)

 

 

Purpose: This course is offered to help singers acquire and develop an understanding of vocal function — anatomical, acoustic and artistic. A survey of historical treatises and tradition of vocal pedagogy will be made from the earliest roots of Bel Canto to the most recent scientific studies of voice technique and quality of tone.

Textbooks:

Please bring the following textbooks to each class:

Stark, James. Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Miller, Richard. The Structure of Singing: System and Art in Vocal Technique. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.

Final Grade:

Attendance 7%

Class Participation, Presentations 33%

December Exam 20%

Research Paper 20%

Final Exam 20%

Attendance:

The nature of a survey course requires the students' presence for each class. A mark of zero will be recorded for each absence and the corollary ratio deducted from the 7% Attendance component of the final grade.

Class Participation:

Each class will have a discussion component based upon audio/video recordings. There will be presentations based upon reading assignments and the class will maintain a cumulative bibliography based upon the collective reading and research.

Research Paper:

Due by March 24th, 2006 — Outline proposal due by March 3rd, 2006. The papers and bibliography will be gathered and bound into a Festschrift at the end of the year.

 

Please call me Torin. I keep regular hours in my studio from 8:30am-5:30pm each weekday.

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