Course Description
This course will provide participants with the practical application of voice skills for individual development.

Course Objectives
On completing this subject, students will:

1. have addressed idiosyncratic vocal and postural habits;
2. have understood and applied appropriate techniques for breathing, phonation, resonance and articulation;
3. have addressed and developed strategies for occupational health and safety issues for heightened speaking situations (e.g. teaching and performance);
4. have developed a sound, practical understanding of the relationship between the body and voice and demonstrate vocal embodiment in the moment of speaking;
5. have learned how to develop a safe vocal preparation for rehearsal and performance.

Time Commitment
Contact Hours: 20 hours contact over the 5-Saturday intensive period. Seven (7) hours on one day during the last (6th) teaching weekend (Saturday).
Total Time Commitment: 120 hours.

Prerequisite
None

Course Description
This course develops and extends the skills learned in Voice Skills. The focus is upon applying voice skills for the student’s own professional development as well as extending vocal pedagogical skills for effective use in the student’s specialist setting.

Course Objectives
On completing this subject, students will have:

1. skills to evaluate, plan and implement a daily practice which develops their own voice;
2. extended their range of vocal pedagogical skills;
3. developed diagnostic skills for working with groups and individuals;
4. further developed an approach to working with the relationship between voice and text;
5. developed a sound understanding of the relationship between the body and voice and apply this to practical demonstration of the embodiment of the voice;
6. applied techniques which serve the vocal requirements of performance/public speaking;
7. practised leading a small group vocal session with peers;
8. received feedback from tutors on the individual’s vocal development.

Time Commitment
Contact Hours: 20 hours contact over the 5-Saturday intensive period. Seven (7) hours on one day during the last (6th) teaching weekend (Saturday).
Total Time Commitment: 120 hours.

Prerequisite
Voice Skills

Course Description
This course will provide students with the opportunity to study a variety of texts which follow a traditional form of dramatic action, dialogic interaction and narrative logic.

Course Objectives
On completing this subject, students will:

1. have learned and applied various approaches to working with text from the initial read, through to rehearsal/practice and performance;
2. have analysed the relationship between voice, speech and text;
3. have an understanding of the actor’s/speaker’s vocal needs within the context of the rehearsal and performance process.

Time Commitment
Contact Hours: 20 hours contact over the 5-Saturday intensive period. Seven (7) hours on one day during the last (6th) teaching weekend (Saturday).
Total Time Commitment: 120 hours.

Prerequisite
Music Theory

Course Description
An elementary study of melody, rhythm, and diatonic tonal harmony in four voices and in simple
instrumental textures. Emphasis on rudiments of music, voice leading, harmonic progression, and elemental melodic forms.

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify and write all elements of the fundamentals of music, including pitches in various clefs, rhythms, simple and compound meters and time signatures, major and minor scales and key signatures, intervals, triads, and seventh chords, at a mastery level (proficient level only for tenor and alto clefs)
2. Evaluate and write single-voice cantus firmus lines and counterpoint in first and second species, at a proficient level
3. Compose and video record an original melody, using and analyzing various musical elements covered in class.

Time Commitment
Contact Hours: 20 hours contact over the 5-Saturday intensive period. Seven (7) hours on one day during the last (6th) teaching weekend (Saturday).
Total Time Commitment: 120 hours.

Co-requisite
Ear Taining

Course Description
This is an elementary aural skills course focuses upon the development of sight-singing and dictation skills from the diatonic major and minor modes.

Course Objectives
On completing this subject, students will be able to:

1. Sing at sight tonal melodies, written in any clef and meter.
2. Sing melodies which modulate and/or contain examples of chromaticism.
3. Transcribe the voices of 4-part harmonic progressions dictated from the piano.

Time Commitment
Contact Hours: 20 hours contact over the 5-Saturday intensive period. Seven (7) hours on one day during the last (6th) teaching weekend (Saturday).
Total Time Commitment: 120 hours.

Co-requisite
Music Theory