Voice, Direction and Song
Code: 106075 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500797 Early Childhood Education | OT | 4 |
| 2500798 Primary Education | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Marta Dosaiguas Canal
- Email:
- marta.dosaiguas@uab.cat
Teachers
- Núria Molins Macau
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Certificate of elementary music or passing a proficiency test.
Objectives and Contextualisation
- Get resources to acquire a good body attitude required in singing and musical conduction
- Learn the fundamentals to sing with a natural voice that is both a good model for students
- Understand and interpret musical approach a wide repertoire of songs
- Analyze and classify the songs from the musical point of view and structure
- Achiev technical bases choral conducting
Competences
- Early Childhood Education
- Consider classroom practical work to innovate and improve teaching.
- Know and use songs to promote hearing, rhythmic and vocal education.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Work in teams and with teams (in the same field or interdisciplinary).
- Primary Education
- Reflect on classroom experiences in order to innovate and improve teaching work. Acquire skills and habits for autonomous and cooperative learning and promote it among pupils.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Work in teams and with teams (in the same field or interdisciplinary).
Learning Outcomes
- Acquire knowledge and skills and abilities in the expressive and perceptive dimension of voice, song, choral singing and conducting.
- Be able to sing and get groups to sing, listening to others and respecting each other.
- Be able to work in a team.
- Being able to sing and sing in groups, listening to others and respecting each other.
- Being able to work together.
- Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one?s own area of knowledge.
- Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and environmental benefits.
- Recognising the value of musical activities related to singing, song and conducting in educating the individual, and the fundamental role that it plays in school activities.
- They have acquired knowledge and skills and abilities in expressive and perceptive dimension of voice, song, choral singing and musical direction.
Content
1. Singing
1.1. The natural voice
1.2. Body attitude. Gesture and sound
1.3. Respiratory control
1.4. Vocal control: production, amplification and projection
1.5. Timbre, expressiveness and musical sensibility
2. The song
2.1. Repertoire of traditional Catalan songs, from authors and other countries
2.2. Songs for one voice, canons and songs two and three voices
2.3. Formal elements and structure of the song
2.4. Composition and accompaniment of songs
2.5. Criteria for the selection of repertoire and interpretation
3. The musical conduction
3.1. Body attitude
3.2. Gesture on conduction
3.3. Interpretation criteria
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Musical activities (singing and direction), in small groups and individuals. Simulation classes for the students to bring practical aspects of voice, song and address | 43 | 1.72 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervised tracking to guide the development of vocal learning songs and the art direction. | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 8 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Analyzing songs, develop a songbook, direct songs and do a personal job on the voice and the body itself | 72 | 2.88 | 1, 5, 7, 8, 9 |
This is a fundamentally practical subject, with the support of the necessary theory, and the protagonist in the teaching and learning process is the student. Under this premise, the methodology of the subject has been planned, which complements the individual and collective practice around voice, song and gesture.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final exam practice | 10% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 9 |
| Individual evaluation of the voice and the direction based on the final test of the mention | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Practical group | 15% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 |
| Practical individual | 45% | 1 | 0.04 | 4 |
To pass the subject, the following must be taken into account:
- According to UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any work will be penalized with a 0 as a grade for it.
- If during the performance of an individual work in class, the teacher considers that a student is trying to copy or is discovered some type of document or device not authorized by the teacher, the same will be graded with a 0, without recovery options.
ASSESMENT ACTIVITIES AND DATES OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF THE SUBJECT
- Individual evaluation of the voice and the direction based on the final test of the mention: june 16th
- Final written test: at the end of 1Q
- analysis sheet
- Practical group work: during the month of May
- song book
- Individual practical work
- Voice reflections: month of November
- Voice warm-up routine: month of December
- individual exercises carried out throughout the course
- Reassessment (practical individual and final exam practice): july 30th
Cross-cutting attitudes such as: participation, active listening, respect, cooperation and punctuality will also be taken into account.
In order to pass the course, all three areas (singing, conducting and voice) must be passed. It will be considered non-assessable when more than 50% of the student's evaluation evidence in each of the three areas of the subject is lacking.
The deadline for returns, feedbacks or qualification of activities wil not be more than 20 working days of the academic calendar.
This subject/module does not provide for the single assessment system.
In order to pass this subject, the student must show good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the language or vehicular language listed in the teaching guide.
In all activities (individual and group), linguistic correctness, writing and formal aspects of presentation will therefore be taken into account. Students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly and show a high degree of understanding of academic texts. An activity may be returned (not assessed) or failed if the teacher considers that it does not meet these requirements.
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the bibliography takes into account the gender perspective
Software
- moodle of the UAB
- video and sound editor
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 1 | Catalan | annual | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | annual | morning-mixed |