Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D. (31.12.2023)
Consolidation of existing manual techniques and their automation. Creating and developing other conducting skills and their practical application in performing choral repertoire. Combining gestures, a recitative way of conducting, conducting "una battuta, di due, di tre, di quatro battute" and combining them in compositions. Application of the fundamentals of conducting techniques in the management of small choral compositions. Implementation of piano scores. The aim of the course is also to create a system of singing skills for use in collective voice education in the choir, in training and interpretation of the choral repertoire. Choir singing and its importance, respiratory and vocal tract, singing breathing, breathing exercises to improve the economy of the breath. Mistakes in breathing. Correct use of tone, types of voice beginnings, brumendo, soft start, induction of head resonance, articulation technique. Characteristics of vocals and consonants. Song articulation. Types of singing weave. Exercise in legato, staccat, jumps, runs. Exercise for balancing vocals. Practical outcomes in the seminar - voice exercises with the use of piano focused on certain voice issues, their evaluation and subsequent performance in one of the faculty choirs. The course also includes the basics of auditory analysis for the improvement of auditory analytical abilities and skills of future choirmaster.
Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D. (21.01.2024)
Consolidation of existing manual techniques and their automation. Creating and developing other conducting skills and their practical application in performing choral repertoire. Combining gestures, a recitative way of conducting, conducting "una battuta, di due, di tre, di quatro battute" and combining them in compositions. Application of the fundamentals of conducting techniques in the management of small choral compositions. Implementation of piano scores. The aim of the course is also to create a system of singing skills for use in collective voice education in the choir, in training and interpretation of the choral repertoire. Choir singing and its importance, respiratory and vocal tract, singing breathing, breathing exercises to improve the economy of the breath. Mistakes in breathing. Correct use of tone, types of voice beginnings, brumendo, soft start, induction of head resonance, articulation technique. Characteristics of vocals and consonants. Song articulation. Types of singing weave. Exercise in legato, staccat, jumps, runs. Exercise for balancing vocals. Practical outcomes in the seminar - voice exercises with the use of piano focused on certain voice issues, their evaluation and subsequent performance in one of the faculty choirs. The course also includes the basics of auditory analysis for the improvement of auditory analytical abilities and skills of future choirmaster.
Literatura -
Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D. (31.12.2023)
McElheran, Brock: Conducting Technique for Beginners and Professionals. OUP USA, 2004.
Schuller, G.: The compleat conductor. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-506377-5, 1997.
David, Julia & La Tour, Stephen: Vocal Technique: A Guide for Conductors, Teachers, and Singers, ISBN-13: 978-1577667827.
Duane S. Crowther: KEY CHORAL CONCEPTS: Teaching Techniques & Tools to Help Your Choir Sound Great (Techniques For Teaching & Conducting High School & Adult Choirs), Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc.
Pimmer, H.: Kleine praktische Chorfibel für Chorleiter und Chorsänger. München: Akademischer Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-929115-41-7.
Dimon, Jr. Theodore: Anatomy of the Voice. North Atlantic Books,U.S., ISBN: 9781623171971, 2018.
Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D. (21.01.2024)
McElheran, Brock: Conducting Technique for Beginners and Professionals. OUP USA, 2004.
Schuller, G.: The compleat conductor. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-506377-5, 1997.
David, Julia & La Tour, Stephen: Vocal Technique: A Guide for Conductors, Teachers, and Singers, ISBN-13: 978-1577667827.
Duane S. Crowther: KEY CHORAL CONCEPTS: Teaching Techniques & Tools to Help Your Choir Sound Great (Techniques For Teaching & Conducting High School & Adult Choirs), Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc.
Pimmer, H.: Kleine praktische Chorfibel für Chorleiter und Chorsänger. München: Akademischer Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-929115-41-7.
Dimon, Jr. Theodore: Anatomy of the Voice. North Atlantic Books,U.S., ISBN: 9781623171971, 2018.
Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D. (21.01.2024)
1. Vocal warm-up in the choir and its meaning.Human singing voices.Fifth chords in all keys.2. Vocal system.Respiratory, phonation, articulatory system.Minor tone exercises - to the third.3. Correct pitch, types of vocal beginnings.Brumendo.Exercise to the fifth.Soft start, induction of head resonance.Release of spokes.4. Singing breathing, breathing exercises.Breathing exercises, exercises to improve breathing economy.Breathing errors.5. Articulation technique.Characteristics of vowels and consonant.Articulation exercise.6. Vocal articulation.Types of singing bond.Exercises in legato, staccato, jumps, runs.7. Equalizing vocals.Vocal equalization exercises.Singing without a piano.8. Children's singing voice, its development, defects and disorders of the voice.Singing in school.9. Voice registers and their unification.Exercises to unify voice registers.10. Voice hygiene.Exercises to expand the vocal range.11. Voice test and placement of singers in voice groups.12. Additional contents of the seminars: Intonation education in the choir.Connections between imprecise choir intonation and deficiencies in singing education.Application of acquired theoretical knowledge and practical skills during the study and analysis of the score from the point of view of its singing difficulty and the selection of suitable voice exercises solving the given problem.
1. Major and minor scales. Scale procedures in major and minor 2. Scalar intervals 3. Tonic quintacord in major and minor. Combination of scale and chord progressions 4. Diatonic tertian procedures in major and minor 5. Harmonic cadences in major and minor 6. Quintacord turnarounds in major and minor 7. Free onsets of major and minor degrees in major and minor 8. Dominant seventh chord and its reversals 9. Other minor seventh chords
Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D. (21.01.2024)
Orientation in the discussed theory and active participation in seminars.Practical outputs in the seminar - voice exercises using the piano focused on a certain voice issue, their evaluation and subsequent performance in one of the faculty choirs.
Papers: two from the areas listed in the syllabus, a selection from those printed in bold (written and presented in the seminar).Singing without a piano.Pitching with a tuner.
Each person prepares two outputs:1. Vocal culture and singing of a selected choir.History of the ensemble, repertoire orientation, concert activities.Characteristics of singing in this choir choir and vocal culture training.Written preparation and presentation in the seminar supplemented with examples of interpretation.You can introduce a choir that you know from your own practice, or you can introduce some important choir.2. Comparative interpretation of an arbitrarily chosen choral work (comparison of at least two audio recordings).For lesser-known compositions, I recommend providing sheet music in advance by email.
Exam format:
1. Written processing of the assigned circuit and subsequent discussion.
2. Practically at the piano: singing (5 voice exercises).Transposition by semitones with the melody in the right hand and non-tonal dominants in the left hand (until the exam date).In writing: Annotated written recording of the singing of three different choirs (male or female, children's, mixed), sent by email (by the exam date).
3. Systematic and ongoing work with lessons in time signature technique, mastering the required content of the material, a part from memory, piano rendition of the studied compositions.
