Group Training of Voice Education 5

Subject guarantor:

Ivana VOSTÁRKOVÁ, Tereza JANDA ROGLOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Ivana VOSTÁRKOVÁ, Tereza JANDA ROGLOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

- 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.

Mode of study:

- Solo and group voice instruction. Classes. Analysis of student reviews. Recorded example analyses

- Practice of vocal skills, focused primarily on developing spatial and mass imagination - ex: body mass - in a techical interplay linked to the somatic and psychosomatic.

- Assessment of achieved skill level may be done in instruction at at the summary exam.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Basic music theory knowledge, middle-school knowledge of wind instruments, vocal and articulation apparatuses. Musicality. Interest in the study. Presumed education.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course 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 KAT&P psychosomatic discipline studies aim towards this.

Recommended or required reading:

Hála, D. / Sovák, M.: Hlas, řeč a sluch

Martienssenová, F.: Vědomé zpívání a vzdělaný pěvec

Lohmann, P.: Chyby hlasové techniky a jejich náprava

Válková, L.: Příčiny hlasových poruch a jejich odstraňování

Válková, L. / Vyskočilová, E.: Hlas individuality

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures, demonstrations, Focused voice exercises, individual voice exercises in groups, classes.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on: Working activity in exercises and classes; completion of two reviews at the summary of both semesters; theory interview on voice technique theory and its importance for personal development.

Course web page:

Note:

For 3rd year students.

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	místnost R313 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 10:00–15:00 (paralelka 1) místnost R312 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) VOSTÁRKOVÁ I. 13:00–14:30 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	10:00–15:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Thu	13:00–14:30	VOSTÁRKOVÁ I.	Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Authorial Acting (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Authorial Acting - 3 years (M.A.) (optional subject)