Group Training of Voice Education 2

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Subject guarantor

Ivana VOSTÁRKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Ivana VOSTÁRKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

• Create impulses for general recognition of the importance of the psychological foundations of optimal functional individual vocal exercises,
• create the basics of vocal and psychosomatic condition of the individual; the need to induce the vocal exercises through a psychosomatic corresponding system. A harmonically tuned functional organism (in the sense of the harmonic interplay of a healthy, life-giving, mental, somatic and vocal event),
• a means for primarily conscious mastery of breath, which renews the harmonic balance between the body, thought and emotion,
• to understand the mechanism of natural (miscellaneous) breathing and its relationship to thought, muscle and emotion, that is, induce the principle of self-awareness and to attempt an integration of the rational, sensible and emotional mind,
• to warrant the reality that the voice is a communication of the quality of the human psycho-somatic and co-creation of an overall expression of the individual,
• vocal quality is reflected in the harmonizing of the consicious and subconscious life of the individual.

Mode of study

• Solo and group vocal instruction.
• Individual work in groups.
• Analysis of student written reviews.
• Analysis of recording examples.
• Preparation of vocal skills, focused primarily on the development of space and mass idea - ex: body mass - in vocal technique exercises.
• This is conscientious work with the voice and not an imitation of the instructor's voice.
• Through audio analysis it is possible to touch the interplay linking the tension between the somatic and psycho-somatic.
• Evaluation of the achieved level of skills to be produced in instruction and at the summary exam.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Basic music-theory knowledge, high-school knowledge of breathing, voice and articulation instruments, musicality, presumed study.

Course contents

Vocal training is understood as one of the componentos of creative training „quality self-realization“ in the sense of moving to a self-awareness and one's potential. In this called training by the voice.

Vocal potential is understood as one of the main requirement of creative events.

Topics:

• discovery of body feeling in relation with an open path to free vocalization,
• internal body mass, body tension, relaxing and license,
• conscious distinction of feelings and their somatic impressions,
• audial, prostor and audio imagination - development of space and mass ideas,
• physiology of breathing, physiology of vocal-breathing physiology - advantages and differences and stimuli for their induction,
• role of diaphram support and deep stabilization system in natural vocalization.

Recommended or required reading

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, Pragma 2000.

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

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:

• work activity in exercises and classes,
• completion of two reviews at summary exams at both semesters,
• accordingly applied skills and knowledge acquired in the summary projects.

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)