Group Training of Voice Education 4
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language of instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202ESL4 | exam | 2 | 2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 29 to 39 hours of self-study | English | summer |
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Department
The subject provides Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy
Contents
Vocal education is understood as an educational component of „quality self-realization“ in the sense of aiming towards self-knowledge and personal potential. This aim is, as well, called by education through the voice. All KATaP psychosomatic discipline studies aim towards this.
Learning outcomes
- Create impulses to a general acknowledgement of the significance of the psychological fundament of individual functional optimal vocal training.
- Develop the fundaments of voice and the psychosomatic condition of the individual; for this there is a need for introducing a corresponding psyschosomatic vocal training system for each organism a harmonically tuned function (in the sense of a harmonic interplay of the heathy, life-giving, psychological, somatic and vocal).
- The intermediator primarily is a conscious mastery of breath which renews the harmonic balance between the body, mind and emotions.
- Understanding the mechanisms of natural (composite) breathing and its relationship to thought, muscle and emotions, that is, bring in principles of self-awareness and attempt to integrate the rational, sensorial and emotional awarenesses.
- Substantiate the reality that the voice is a conveyance of the quality of the human psychosomatically and co-creator of the whole of the expression of individuality.
- The quality of the voice reflects the tuning of the conscious and subconscious life of a person.
Prerequisites and other requirements
Basic music theory knowledge, middle-school knowledge of wind instruments, vocal and articulation apparatuses. Musicality. Interest in the study. Presumed education.
Literature
Sancolin, Cathrine: Complete Vocal Technique. Copenhagen: Shout Publishing, 2000.
Linklater, Kristin: Freeing the Natural Voice. New York: Drama Book Publishers, 1976.
Rodenburg, Patsy: Speaking Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 2002.
Rodenburg, Patsy: *The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer*. London: Methuen Drama, 2005.
Rodenburg, Patsy: *The Need for Words: Voice and the Text*. London: Methuen, 2005.
Rodenburg, Patsy: *The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice*. London: Methuen, 1992
Seikel, John A.: *Anatomy and Physiology for Speech, Language, and Hearing*. Clifton Park, Delmar: Cengage Learning, 2010.
Zinder, David G.: *Body, Voice, Imagination, Image*. London, New York: Routledge, 2009.
Garfield Davies, D.: *Care of the Professional Voice: A Guide to Voice Management for Singers, Actors, and Professional Voice Users*. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Marafioti, P. Mario: Caruso’s Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice. New York: Appleton-Century, 1937.
Houseman, Barbara: Finding Your Voice: A Step-by-Step Guide for Actors. London: Nick Hern Books, 2012.
Titze, Ingo R.: *Principles of Voice Production*. Iowa City: National Center for Voice and Speech, 2000.
Miller, Donald: *Resonance in Singing: Voice Building Through Acoustic Feedback*. Princeton: Inside View Press, 2008
Stebbins, Genevieve: Society Gymnastics and Voice-Culture: Adapted from the Delsarte System. New York: Edgar S. Werner Publishing & Supply Co., 1888
Salzman, Eric: The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Newham, Paul: Therapeutic Voicework: Principles and Practice for the Use of Singing as a Therapy. London, Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley, 1998.
Lewis, Dennis: The Tao of Natural Breathing for Health, Well-Being, and Inner Growth. San Francisco: Mountain Wind Publishing, 1997
Edgerton, Michael Edward: *The 21st-Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice*. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Alschitz, Jurij: *Training Forever!*. Malmö: Lund University, Malmö Theatre Academy, 2003.
Titze, Ingo R.: Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation. Iowa City: Utah National Center for Voice and Speech, 2012.
Shewell, Christina: Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Martin, Jacqueline: *Voice in Modern Theater*. London: Routledge, 1991.
Gutekunst, Christina: *Voice into Acting: Integrating Voice and the Stanislavski Approach*. London, New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014.
Berry, Cicely: *Voice and the Actor*. New York: Wiley Publishing, 1973.
Berry, Cicely: Your Voice and How to Use It. London: Virgin Books, 2000.
Campo, Giuliano: Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski. London, New York: Routledge, 2010.
Chapman, Janice L.: *Singing and Teaching Singing*. 2012.
Fields, Victor Alexander: *Training the Singing Voice*. 1947.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Credits are awarded based on:
- attendance
- active participation in exercises and seminars; both in independent and group work
- the submission of two reflective essays during the final exams in both semesters;
- a theoretical interview on the basic principles of vocal expression and its significance for personal development
Schedule for winter semester 2026/2027:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2026/2027:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Authorial Acting in English (B.A.) (Required subjects)