Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Diane Hughes
Contact via 9850 2175
Room 157, Building 10HA (10 Hadenfeld Avenue)
Appointments made via email
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
MUS205
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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:
Students are expected to attend all lectorials and tutorials as content directly relates to assessments. Informal and formal feedback in this unit is provided in several ways. Interactive lectorials and exercises provide opportunities to test critical thinking and listening skill development; tutor and peer comments are other ways of receiving informal feedback throughout the session.
Students are required to participate in iLearn Forums for all group discussion. Please do not use social media, e.g., do not use Facebook.
Due to copyright issues, the posting of lyrics, sheet music and videos on iLearn is not permitted. Please post only links to resources such as websites/YouTube.
Please acknowledge your sources in verbal and written assessment tasks. For all written work, students are required to use APA referencing system for all in-text referencing and reference lists. When reference is made to recorded material then a discography must also be included. Please note, word counts include the reference list. Marks may be deducted for going over the word limit.
All performance assessments must be from memory – no reading of lyrics or music is permitted. If singing in a language other than English (an option for one style and song only), a translation of all lyrics is required.
Students will need to supply their own backing tracks or musical accompaniment, including rehearsal tracks. It is the responsibility of students to ensure that backing tracks do not breach copyright legislation (obtained legally; not pirated copies or illegal downloads) nor have the melody or vocal line heard on the track. Please ensure that all backing tracks are supplied on a USB memory stick for performance assessments.
GRADING
All assessments will be graded in accordance with the University's Assessment Policy: https://staff.mq.edu.au/work4/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/assessment
For full assessment rubrics, please refer to iLearn.
LATE PENALTIES
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
REQUIRED READINGS
The set readings are listed in the "Delivery and Resources" section and are required (with the exception of Week 1) to be read prior to each week's lectorial.
Set exercises are available on iLearn.
RECOMMENDED READING
Recommended readings will be progressively listed on iLearn as appropriate.
ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION
All written assessment submissions must be through Turnitin by the due date/time.
Formal and informal feedback will be issued throughout the session.
EXAMPLES OF WORK
Examples of relevant and related assessment tasks will be discussed in lectorials and/or provided on iLearn.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Vocal exercises and program | 15% | No | 28/08/18; Week 5 |
Vocal Journal | 20% | No | 14/09/18; Week 7 |
Blues ensemble | 30% | No | 11/9Rec; 16/10Per; 19/10Ref |
Individual Performance | 35% | No | 06/11/18-08/11/18; Week 13 |
Due: 28/08/18; Week 5
Weighting: 15%
Vocal Exercises: In addition to your own researched and selected exercises, students will be required to sing exercises from the set MUS206 exercises. 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.
Vocal Program: The vocal 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 (e.g., for the exercises including both those researched and selected by the student and MUS206 set exercises) and demonstrate the development of a vocal practice program, exercises and components. The vocal program must contain a reference list in APA style. Maximum of 300 words (including references).
Programs are to be submitted via Turnitin by 5:00PM on the due date.
Assessment criteria
Implementation (practical) and understanding (written) of vocal technique and stylistic integrity including:
For a full assessment rubric, please refer to iLearn.
Due: 14/09/18; Week 7
Weighting: 20%
This assessment begins in Week 1 and concludes in Week 7. It requires weekly reflection on individual progress in relation to the vocal program and unit content. This involves critical reflection (on individual progress) and on content (lectorials, readings, weekly questions and tutorials), individual research and associated critical listening exercises.
Students are required to write progressive entries (total maximum of 400 words each week). This word count should be divided as:
1. 100 words for weekly reflection on individual progress (practices and in relation to your Vocal Program).
2. 300 words for reflecting on weekly content (lectorials, readings, weekly questions and tutorials) and individual research and associated critical listening exercises; a maximum of 100 words (of the 300 total) should be allocated to answering the weekly question/s. The journal is to also include completed critical listening analyses from the weekly lectorials. However, the weekly lectorial critical listening analyses are not included in the word count.
Please head weekly entries as Week 1, Week 2 etc. Diligent sequential entries are required. The format of journals is left to each student, however please follow academic writing principles. The journal entries should include in-text references, discography and contain a reference list in APA style.
Journals are required to be submitted via Turnitin by 5:00PM on the due date.
Assessment criteria: Evidence of:
For a full assessment rubric, please refer to iLearn.
Due: 11/9Rec; 16/10Per; 19/10Ref
Weighting: 30%
This assessment entails a recording during tutorials (11/9), a performance during the lectorial (16/10) and a written reflection (19/10) of a 12 bar blues ensemble. This ensemble, in addition to group sections, allows each student to sing a solo line or a 12 bar sequence, and to submit a critical reflection statement (maximum of 750 words) on the ensemble process and learning.
Students are therefore required to prepare for and to actively participate weekly in tutorials (including the use of looping in ensemble development where appropriate), iLearn forums and additional ensemble rehearsals.
Students are required to individually write lyrics to a group theme consistent with the blues style, and to collectively structure a melodic component and musical arrangement in tutorials. Ensemble segments will be recorded in Week 7 tutorials. Students will be marked individually on their respective contributions including creating, recording, performing (20% weighting) and critically reflecting (10% weighting).
1. Ensemble development and performance
An iLearn forum will be set up for each group for ALL ensemble communication so as to effectively track the group process.
Each group is to keep a record of attendance of all practices held outside tutorial times. This is to be handed in with a stage plot at the time of the performance assessment.
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. The use of live looping is also allowed.
Ensemble assessments will occur where possible within the scheduled lectorial time.
2. Individual Reflection
The reflection statement should include in-text references and demonstrate understanding of the blues style, blues vocal nuances, individual and group development. It should also contain the lyrics that you developed for the ensemble that, along with blues discussion, may also be referred to in the reflection. The reflection statement must include a reference list in APA style. A maximum of 750 words applies including the reference list.
Reflection statements are required to be submitted via Turnitin by 5:00PM on 19/10/18.
Assessment criteria
Evidence of:
For a full assessment rubric, please refer to iLearn.
Due: 06/11/18-08/11/18; Week 13
Weighting: 35%
This assessment requires a solo performance of 2 contrasting songs, spoken introductions to each songs and associated stagecraft. The songs are to be performed in front of an audience from memory. CD backing tracks or musical accompaniment are to be provided by students. No melody, either sung or played, is to be heard in backing tracks and backing tracks must not breach copyright.
Students will be marked on 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 must acknowledge their sources in their introductions.
Students have up to 10 minutes performance time (including song introductions and set-up time).
Assessment criteria
Evidence of:
For a full assessment rubric, please refer to iLearn.
Students will either be assigned assessment times during the scheduled lecture and tutorial times, or will be assigned additional assessment times during Week 13.
MUS 206/S2/Day/Lecture_1/01 |
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12:00pm |
1:00pm |
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10 Hadenfeld Ave - 187 Drama Studio |
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Diane Hughes |
MUS 206/S2/Day/Tutorial_1/01 |
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2:00pm |
3:00pm |
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10 Hadenfeld Ave - 123 Ensemble Rm |
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Diane Hughes |
MUS 206/S2/Day/Tutorial_1/02 |
Tuesday |
3:00pm |
4:00pm |
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10 Hadenfeld Ave - 123 Ensemble Rm |
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Diane Hughes
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Tutorials begin in Week 2.
Students should bring bottled room temperature water to all lectorials and tutorials.
Students are requested to advise the convenor of any vocal health issues.
Technologies used in this unit include:
Recommended 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 corresponding weeks:
Week 1
1. Journal Article: A History of Early Microphone Singing, 1925-1939: American Mainstream Popular Singing at the Advent of Electronic Microphone Amplification.
Author(s): Paula Lockheart
Source: Popular Music & Society. Fall 2003, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p367-385
Access: Library Database
Week 2
2. Journal Article: Some Folk Singing of To-Day
Author(s): E. J. Moeran
Source: Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1 December 1948, Vol.5(3), pp.152-154
Access: Library Database
3. Media Article: Sound of summer: Meet the new faces of nu folk, Independent, 10 July, 2010
Author(s): Nick Duerden
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/sound-of-summer-meet-the-new-faces-of-nu-folk-2021011.html
Access: Internet
Week 3
4. Journal Article: Gospel and Blues Improvisation
Author(s): Richard Smallwood
Source: Music Educators Journal, Vol. 66, No. 5 (Jan., 1980), pp. 100-104
Access: Library Database
5. Book Chapter: Singing the Blues
Author(s): Albert Murray
Source: Stomping the Blues (p. 77) (2017). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Access: Library Database
Week 4
6. Journal Article: Improvisation for Vocal Jazz Ensembles
Author(s): Doug Anderson
Source: Music Educators Journal, Vol. 66, No. 5 (Jan., 1980), pp. 89-94
Access: Library Database
7. 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
Access: Library Database
Week 5
8. Journal Article: It's only rock'n'roll (but he likes it)
Author(s): M. Roncevic
Source: Library Journal, 2007 Mar 1, Vol.132(4), pp.110-110
Access: Library Database
9. Journal Article: Elvis Rock'N'Roll's reluctant rebel
Author(s): Glen Jeansonne
Source: History Today, 2007, Vol.57(8)
Access: Library Database
Week 6
10. Journal Article: Michael Jackson and the Expressive Power of Voice-produced Sound
Author(s): Mats Johansson
Source: Popular Music and Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, May 2012, pp. 261–279
Access: Library Database
11. 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
Access: Library Database
Week 7
12. Journal Article: The Beauty and the Beast Trope in Modern Musical Theatre
Author(s): Rebecca Warner
Source: Studies in Musical Theatre, 2015 Mar, Vol.9(1), pp.31-51
Access: Library Database
13. Journal Article: Trends in Musical Theatre Voice: An Analysis of Audition Requirements for Singers.
Author(s): Green, Freeman, Edwards, & Meyer.
Source: Journal of Voice, 2014, Vol.28(3), pp. 324-327.
Access: Library Database
Additional Recommended Readings:
Coupland, N. (2011). Voice, place and genre in popular song performance1. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15(5), 573-602.
Richardson, J. (2013). Televised live performance, looping technology and the ‘nu folk’: Kt Tunstall on Later … with Jools Holland. In The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology (pp. 85-101). Ashgate Publishing. Access: Library Database
Week 1 |
Introduction and amplification |
Week 2 | Folk |
Week 3 | Blues |
Week 4 | Jazz |
Week 5 | Rock’n’Roll to Rock |
Week 6 | Pop/Country |
Week 7 | Musical theatre |
Week 8 | Performing expectations and theories |
Week 9 | Originality, the singer-songwriter and individuality |
Week 10 | Blues ensemble performance |
Week 11 | Nuances and style |
Week 12 | Developing and performing song introductions |
Week 13 | Individual Performances |
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