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Course Syllabus

MUSC 2616 Private Voice II

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: MUSC 1616 with a culminating Vocal Progress Score (VPS) of 2.0 or higher, or consent of instructor.
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2025
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 1
  • Maximum Class Size: 1

Course Description

This course provides students with individual vocal instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 one-hour lessons during the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a students technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required.

Justification

As an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), Snow College is required to provide competent private instruction for music majors in all vocal and instrumental specialties. Private instruction is required of music majors in four-year music degree programs and must appear on student transcripts. This course offers an excellent opportunity for all Snow College students to develop musicianship and performance skills. Courses of this type are taught at all NASM accredited institutions in Utah.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate technical skills (alignment, breath, diction, agility, range, dynamic flexibility, tonal control, projection) necessary to perform intermediate to advanced repertoire in styles selected in cooperation with the instructor
  2. Students will maintain good practice habits, and account for practice duration and quality
  3. Students will learn and (where appropriate) memorize vocal literature (appropriate to skill level) from a variety of stylistic periods/genres
  4. Students will demonstrate stylistic and expressive awareness appropriate to the period and genre of the music they are studying.
  5. Students will demonstrate maturing communication/acting skills in performance

Course Content

Content for this course may be drawn from the following• Practice journal development• Correct postural alignment and breath engagement• Consistent tonal presence and focus• Increase of dynamic range• Singing in foreign languages• Building a vocal warmup and exercise regimen• Strategies for vocal care and health• Study of solo repertoire appropriate for second-year college students and/or the individual level of the student• Instruction in performance practice appropriate to stylistic periods• Development of performance technique, including memorization techniques, stage deportment and anxiety management• Performance communication skills