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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1080 Class Voice

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
  • Semesters Offered: TBA
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2022
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2027
  • End Semester: Summer 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 20
  • Maximum Class Size: 24

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the study and performance of vocal music. It is designed for the beginning to the intermediate singer who desires to learn more about vocal music, including technique, diction, and performance practices.

Justification

This course allows the beginning to intermediate voice student (including non-vocal music majors) to learn the fundamentals of vocal music. Courses of this type are taught in all music departments at four-year schools in Utah.; This course will transfer to these schools as elective music credit.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will: understand basic vocal production technique, including posture and body position, the use of the muscles of inhalation and exhalation and proper breath support and control;
  2. Students will understand the basics of vocal timbre, including the use of the muscles of the throat to create proper vocal focus;
  3. Students will understand the basics of vocal diction, including the use of the lips, tongue and teeth to create clarity and tonal focus;
  4. Students will understand the difference between head voice and chest voice, and the proper usage of both;
  5. Students will have the opportunity to memorize and perform vocal music in a recital setting.

Course Content

• posture and head position• breath support and control• sound production and focus• head voice, chest voice, and mixed voice• diction and correct pronunciation practice• performance practice• memorization techniques• recital practices