Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor & Tutor
Veronica Monro
Contact via veronica.monro@mq.edu.au
Y3A Administration Hub
By appointment
Diane Hughes
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
MUS205 or admission to GCertArts
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Building on vocal abilities and understanding acquired in MUS205, this unit aims to provide students with technical and stylistic fluency at an intermediate level of vocal study. Creative approaches to repertoire and songwriting are introduced. In addition, the unit fosters the development of interpretive and performance skills appropriate to a variety of contemporary music genres. Students research contemporary popular music styles and are encouraged to pursue specific interests such as Musical Theatre, Blues, Jazz, Country, Pop, Rock and the singer-songwriter. This unit combines lectures/workshops and practical tutorials.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Vocal exercises and program | 15% | 02/09/14; Week 5 |
Vocal Journal | 20% | 07/10/14; Week 8 |
Blues ensemble | 25% | 14/10/14; Week 9 |
Individual Performance | 40% | 11/11/14; Week 13 |
Due: 02/09/14; Week 5
Weighting: 15%
Vocal exercises: Students will be required to sing exercises from the set MUS206 exercises and from the Peckham text. Assessments of exercises will occur where possible within scheduled tutorial times. However, students may also be required to book an individual time for assessments outside those times.
Program: The vocal practice program should detail the individual practice routine devised by the student and include warm-ups, exercises for vocal development and cool-downs. The vocal program should include in-text references and demonstrate understanding of the program components. The vocal program must be typed and contain a reference list.
Programs are required to be handed in to the MUSIC assignment box on W6A Level 1 by 5:00PM on the due date, and must have an Arts Faculty cover sheet attached.
Assessment criteria
Implementation (practical) and understanding (written) of vocal technique and stylistic integrity including:
Due: 07/10/14; Week 8
Weighting: 20%
This assessment begins in Week 1 and concludes in Week 8. It requires weekly journal reflection on individual vocal program and development. It may also include content summaries, individual research and critical listening when appropriate. Following the development of a vocal program (Week 1), students are to log progressive weekly reflections on vocal practices, goals, strategies, development, solo and ensemble rehearsals. Diligent sequential entries are required. The journal must be typed, should include in-text references, discography and contain a reference list.
Journals are required to be handed in to the MUSIC assignment box on W6A Level 1 by 5:00PM on the due date, with an Arts Faculty cover sheet attached.
Assessment criteria: Evidence of:
Due: 14/10/14; Week 9
Weighting: 25%
This assessment entails a group performance of a 12 bar blues that, in addition to group sections, allows each student to sing a solo line or a 12 bar sequence, submit a reflection statement (maximum of 750 words) on the ensemble process and learning. Students are required to prepare for and to participate weekly in tutorials and additional rehearsals. Students are required to individually write lyrics to a group theme consistent with the blues style, and to collectively structure a melodic component in tutorials. Students will be marked individually on their performance.
Students should actively participate in tutorials and rehearsals as a component of their mark will reflect the process.
A selection of instrumental backings is provided, however groups may also choose to provide their own simple musical accompaniment in a 12 bar blues format.
Ensemble assessments will occur where possible within the scheduled lecture time.
Written component: The reflection statement should include in-text references and demonstrate understanding of the blues style, blues vocal nuances and group development. It should also have the individual student lyrics attached that may be referenced in the reflection. The reflection statement must be typed and contain in-text referencing and a reference list if appropriate.
Reflection statements are required to be handed in to the MUSIC assignment box on W6A Level 1 by 5:00PM on 8/10, and must have an Arts Faculty cover sheet attached.
Assessment criteria
Evidence of:
Due: 11/11/14; Week 13
Weighting: 40%
This assessment requires a solo performance of 2 contrasting songs, 2 spoken introductions to those songs and stagecraft, in front of an audience from memory. CD backings or musical accompaniment are to be provided by students. No melody, either sung or played, is to be heard in these recordings. Students will be marked their performance of two songs representative of two contemporary musical styles/genres. Students are required to discuss the style of their songs as introductions to each song (from memory), detailing the style and the vocal nuances they will perform that represent their chosen styles. Students have up to 10 minutes performance time (including song introductions and set-up time).
Assessment criteria
Evidence of:
Students will either be assigned assessment times during the scheduled lecture and tutorial times, or will be assigned additional assessment times during Week 13.
Technology used and required:
Required Text:
Peckham, A. (2006). Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer. Boston, MA: Berklee Press.
Required readings are to be completed prioir to the lecture in the following weeks:
Week 2
Book Chapter [HC]: Dunaway, D. & Beer, M. (2010). “Nu Folk” in Singing out: An oral history of America’s folk music revivals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.168-188.
Journal Article: The Singer's the Thing: The Individual and Group Identity in a Pennine Singing Tradition
Author(s): Ian Russell
Source: Folk Music Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2003), pp. 266-281
Publisher(s): English Folk Dance + Song Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522687
Week 3
Journal Article: Gospel and Blues Improvisation
Author(s): Richard Smallwood
Source: Music Educators Journal, Vol. 66, No. 5 (Jan., 1980), pp. 100-104
Publisher(s): MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3395785
Journal Article: Improvisation for Vocal Jazz Ensembles
Author(s): Doug Anderson
Source: Music Educators Journal, Vol. 66, No. 5 (Jan., 1980), pp. 89-94
Publisher(s): MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3395783
Week 4
Journal Article:Towards Identification of African Traits in Early Jazz
Author(s): Mark C. Gridley; Wallace Rave
Source: The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 44-56
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1214968
Journal Article:Crooning on the Fault Lines: Theorizing Jazz and Pop Vocal Singing Discourse in the Rock Era, 1955-1978
Author(s): Vincent Stephens
Source: American Music, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 156-195
Publisher(s): University of Illinois Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40071702
Week 5
Book Chapter: Middleton, Richard (2000). “Rock Singing” in John Potter (Ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Singing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 28-41.
Journal Article [e-resources]: Hughes, Diane and Keith, Sarah (2012). "Creating Space for Where Ancestors Once Walked: The Singer - Songwriter as Cultural Identity" was Journal of Creative Communications November (2012 7.3: 177-190) http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/279473
Week 6
Book Chapter [e-resources]: Frith, Simon (1996). “The Voice” in Performing rites: Evaluating popular music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.183-202.
Week 7
Journal Article: Fisher, James (2001): “Let's go on with the show”: Jay records and a new golden age of the musical theatre, Popular Music and Society, 25:3-4, pp.91-107.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03007760108591802
Week 8
Journal Article:Narrative Paradigms, Musical Signifiers, and Form as Function in Country Music
Author(s): JOCELYN R. NEAL
Source: Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 41-72
Publisher(s): University of California Press on behalf of the Society for Music Theory
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mts.2007.29.1.41
DELIVERY
Lecture 12-1 TUESDAY Y3A187
Tutorial 2-3 TUESDAY Y3A123
Tutorial 3-4 TUESDAY Y3A123
Tutorial 4-5 TUESDAY Y3A123
Tutorial 5-6 TUESDAY Y3A123
Week 1 | Unit overview and introduction |
Week 2 | Folk |
Week 3 | Blues |
Week 4 | Jazz |
Week 5 | Rock’n’Roll to Rock |
Week 6 | Pop |
Week 7 | Musical theatre |
Week 8 | Country |
Week 9 | Blues ensemble |
Week 10 | The singer-songwriter |
Week 11 | Developing and performing song introductions |
Week 12 | Stagecraft and performance skills |
Week 13 | Individual Performances |
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