Individual Voice Education 5
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202EIL5 | Z | 2 | 1T | English | winter |
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Name of lecturer(s)
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 2019/2020:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2019/2020:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Authorial Acting in English (B.A.) (optional subject)