vocal pedagogy - Music 241

Course Objectives
•      Study and understand the anatomy and physiology of the human voice.
•      Master the language (technical and imagistic) that will enable you to communicate effectively with your voice students.
•      Develop observational and diagnostic skills for effective teaching.
•      Discuss practical issues of teaching.
•      Teach 8 30-minute voice lessons to a non-major voice student (6 will be taped and reviewed by Dr. Holzmeier; 1 will be observed by Dr. Holzmeier during Finals week).

Course Activities
•      Class Discussion
•      Readings
•      Videos/Worksheets
•      Topic Summaries
•      Journal of Singing article summaries (2)
•      Original Vocalises (5)
•      Supervised Teaching (8 lessons; 6 will be taped and reviewed by Dr. Holzmeier and 2 will be observed directly by Dr. Holzmeier)
Lesson Plans, Lesson Summaries (1 for each lesson)
•      1 of the 8 lessons will be a 30-minute demonstration lesson and exit interview for Dr. Holzmeier during Finals Week

Required Texts and Materials
Conable, Barbara.  The Structures and Movement of Breathing.
     Chicago:  GIA Publications, 2000.
McCoy, Scott.  Your Voice:  An Inside View.  Multimedia Voice
     Science and Pedagogy.  Princeton, NJ:  2004.
Inexpensive 90-minute audio tapes, CDs, OR video media (DVD, Hi-
     8, or mini-DVD) to record lessons.
Inexpensive tape recorder with internal or external microphone, MP3      recorder, OR videocamera.  I will not listen to lessons taped on      mini-cassettes or listen to lesson on any of your personal hardware      (MP3 player, tape recorder, etc.).

Optional Materials
Boytim, Joan F.  The Private Voice Studio.  Hal Leonard, 2003.
Bunch, Maribeth.  The Singing Book.  New York:  W.W. Norton,
     2004.
Bunch, Maribeth.  The Singing Book Companion CDs.  W.W. Norton,
     2004.  2 CDs with split-track format.

NOTE:  If you purchase The Singing Book, you can access the student website at http://www.norton.com/web/singing, which will allow you to access additional keys
for many songs in the anthology, listen to music in various keys,
and print the songs as performance-ready sheet music.

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