Group Training of Voice Education 4

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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 - student before the group,
• analysis of student written reviews,
• analysis of recorded examples,
• developed vocal skills, focused primarily on space and mass ideas - (ex: body mass - in vocal technique exercise),
• with the help of audio analysis it is possible to touch the interplay of tension of the body and mind-body,
• this is conscientious work with the voice and not the vocal imitation of the instructor.

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 components of original training of „quality self-realization“ in the sense of moving toward self-awareness of one's potential. This direction is labeled vocal training. This course develops personal and psycho-somatic skills, enabling students to adopt the skills important for diverse vocal communication (breath, voice, ortoepy, language dynamics, modulation, spoken expression).

Topics:

• imagination as one of the basic impulses for vocalization,
• situational idea and voice,
• mutual vocal and mental provocations aiming towards removing limited vocal habits,
• coordinating and linking individual vocal elements in practice,
• analysis of vocal professionals showing the psycho-matic relationships,
• working with texts,
• integration of knowledge and skills into creative projects.

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.: 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:

• work activity in exercises and classes,
• level of skill acquired and experience in use in independent original work,
• completion of two reviews at the summary exam in both semesters.

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)