Individual Voice Education 2

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Subject guarantor

Tereza JANDA ROGLOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Tereza JANDA ROGLOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

• Create impetus for general recognition of the importance of the psychological basis of individual functional voice exercises.
• Developing vocal basics and the phsyical-mental conditions, the need to induce voice exercises in a corresponding physical-mental system. For each harmonically tuned function (in the sense of the harmonic interplay of healthy, vitalizing, mental, physical and vocal production).
• The mediator is primarily the conscientious management of breating which renews the harmonic balance among the body, thoughts and emotions.
• To understand the mechanism of natural (miscellaneous) breathing and its relationship to thought, muscles and emotion, that is, to induce prmiciples of self-awareness and attempt to integrate rational, sensible and emotional thought.
• Justify the reality that voice is a communication of human physical-mental quality and co-creates a comprehensive expression of individuality
• Quality of voice reflects the tuning of the conscious and subconscious of the individual.

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.

Course contents

Voice training is understood as one component of artistic training - very good self-realization - meaning aimed towards getting to know oneself and one's potential also for training the voice. All Alternative Theatre and Puppetry Dept. body-mind course are aimed in this direction.

Recommended or required reading

Bar, J.: Pravý tón a pravé pěvecké umění 1, 2. Praha, Supraphon 1976

Čunderle, M (ed.).: Hlas, mluva, řeč, Řeč, mluva, hlas. Praha, AMU 2006.

Hančil, J.: Hlas individuality. In. Svět a divadlo 1993, č. 1.

Lewis, D.: Tao dechu. Praha, Prgma 2000.

Martienssenová - Lohmanová F.: Vědomé zpívání. Praha, SNP 1987.

Válková - Jonášová, L.: Abeceda hlasových cvičení. Praha, Panton 1971

Válková, L.: Hlasová výchova herců a její řešení. In. Svět a divadlo 1993, č. 1.

Válková, L.: K psychologickým aspektům výchovy k profesionálnímu hlasovému a zpěvnímu projevu. In Psychosomatický základ veřejného vystupování, jeho studium a výzkum, Praha: AMU 1999.

Válková, L. / Vyskočilová, E.: Hlas individuality - Psychosomatické pojetí hlasové výchovy. Praha, AMU 2007

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.

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Authorial Acting (B.A.) (required subject)