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Voice Minor

14 half hour lessons

Applied 111

  • Techniques of breathing and resonation
  • Songs learned: 4 - 5
  • Languages: English and Italian
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2
  • Jury: 2 songs memorized (Italian not required)

Applied 112

  • Technique continues
  • Songs learned: 4 - 5
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2
  • Jury: 2 songs memorized (one in Italian)

Applied 121

  • Technique continues
  • Songs learned: 4 - 6
  • Languages: English and Italian
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2
  • Jury: 2 songs memorized (one in Italian)

Applied 122

  • Technique continues
  • Songs learned 5 - 6
  • Languages: English, Italian and German
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2
  • Jury: 2 songs memorized (one Italian or German)

Voice Major

14 one hour lessons

Applied 143/151

  • Technical work on breathing and resonation through exercises and vocalization
  • Songs learned: 5 - 7
  • Languages: English and Italian
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2.
  • Jury: 3 songs memorized (Italian not required)

Applied 152

  • Technique continues
  • Songs learned: 6 - 8
  • Languages: English and Italian
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2.
  • Jury: sung before the entire music faculty
    • 4 songs memorized (Italian required)
    • Major and melodic minor scales
    • sight-read (on piano) melody of song
    • Provide 5 copies of songs for faculty

Applied 161

  • Technique continues
  • Songs learned: 7 - 9
  • Languages: English, Italian and German
  • Interp performances: minimum of 2.
  • Jury: 4 songs memorized (language required)

Applied 162

  • Technique continues
  • Songs learned: 8 - 10
  • Languages: English, Italian, German & French
  • Interp performances: minimum of 3
  • Jury: 4 songs memorized (language required)

Recommendations

  • Attend solo voice recitals and choral concerts
  • Listen to recordings of classical singers
  • Keep a voice journal
  • Buy some music and begin a resource library
  • Study Italian or German
  • Develop a positive relationship with accompanist
  • Occasionally tape your lessons
  • Keep yourself healthy: eat right, sleep enough, etc.
  • Consider doing a half recital in sophomore or third year of study

Policies

  • Voice tuition paid directly to instructor based on payment option chosen
  • Payments are to made on time and in full
  • Makeup lessons are issued only if advanced notice is given to the instructor.
  • Without advanced notice, no makeup given, but student still pays for that lesson.
  • Teacher is required drop any student who has 3 unexcused absences
  • Students who study private voice should not be in more than one ensemble outside of choir, without teachers permission
  • Students who study voice should not be smoking
  • Students who fail to comply with these policies may be dropped from their teachers studio.
  • Teachers have the right to put a hold on grades and credits and freeze enrollment if students have any outstanding debt for lessons.

Recommended Source Material

  • Harvard Dictionary of Music
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
  • Anatomy Coloring Book
  • A-Z of Foreign Musical Terms
  • Hippocrene Practical Dictionary of Italian
  • Langenscheitt German Dictionary
  • Lacrosse French Dictionary
  • Art of the Song Recital
  • Soprano on Her Head

Suggested Anthologies/Collections

(The following titles are a few of the collections that the student of voice might use in their study)

  • Twenty-four Italian Songs and Arias - G. Schirmer
  • 26, 28 Italian Songs and Arias - Alfred Music
  • Classical Italian Songs for School and Studio - Ditson
  • 17th and 18th Century Italian Songs - International
  • Basics of Singing - Schirmer
  • Books Foundations in Singing - Wm. C. Brown Co.
  • Expressive Singing Song Anthology - Wm C. Brown Co.
  • Pathways of Song - R. D. Row
  • The Young Singer (Sop. Cont/Mez, Ten, Bar) - R.D. Row
  • Songs You Like to Sing - G Schirmer
  • The Singing Road (Vol I, II, III) - Carl Fischer
  • Standard Vocal Repertoire (Bk I & II) - R. D. Row
  • Singable Songs for Studio and Recital - Oliver Ditson
  • Sing Solo (Sop., Cont., Ten., Bar.) - Oxford University
  • 50 Art Songs from the Modern Repertoire - G. Schirmer
  • Contemporary Songs in English - Carl Fischer
  • 20th Century Art Song for Medium Voice - Schirmer
  • 52 Sacred Songs - G. Schirmer
  • Old American Song Settings by Copland
  • Five Folk Songs, arr. Zaninelli - Shawnee Press
  • Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers
  • Song by 22 Americans - G. Schirmer
  • Album of Negro Spirituals, arr. Burleigh - Belwin Mills
  • Five Shakespeare Songs , Quilter - Boosey & Hawkes
  • Solos for the Church Year - G. Schirmer
  • The Songs of John Jacob Niles - G. Schirmer
  • Samuel Barber Collected Songs - G. Schirmer
  • The New Imperial Edition Songs
  • Schubert Singers Musical Theatre Anthology - Hal Leonard
  • The First Book of Soprano Solos - G. Schirmer
  • The First Book of Alto Solos - G. Schirmer
  • The First Book of Tenor Solos - G. Schirmer
  • The First Book of Baritone Solos - G. Schirmer

Practice

All students studying voice are expected to practice daily. For singers practice time consists of practicing voice lesson instruction on breathing, bodywork, vocalizing, learning notes, learning text, translating, memorizing, listening to recordings of your songs and working with an accompanist.

Voice students are expected to practice 1 to 2 hours daily on voice lesson instruction and songs.


Updated on 04-NOV-05
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