Teaching Project:  Students will be assigned a volunteer singer.  The student will teach one lesson in front of the class, another outside of class, and one more final lesson in front of the class.  The students is to prepare an “First Lesson” plan, and a plan for each subsequent lesson.  The student is to also document what transpired in each lesson as well as an analysis of the singer’s needs, and a diagnosis for each.  The following information should be included: vocalises, non-vocal exercises, what was accomplished at each lesson (or not accomplished), assignments for next lesson, problems that were encountered and how the problems were resolved, repertoire performed in the lesson( including why that repertoire was selected), and other pertinent information.  This document should be very detailed.   Students will present this project to the class.

 

 Lesson Observations:  Each student is to observe 3 voice lessons by three different teachers and three different levels (child, if possible, junior high, high school, college, adult) and submit the observations for grading.  The teacher you observe must be approved by the instructor.  The teacher must not be someone you observed in your Choral Rehearsal Observations.  See attached form for Lesson Observations.

 

 Choral Rehearsal Observations:  Each student is to observe 3 choral rehearsals by three different conductors and three different levels (elementary, junior high, high school, college, church) and submit the observations for grading.  conductor you observe must be approved by the instructor.  The conductor must not be someone you observed in your Lesson Observations.  See attached form for Choral Rehearsal Observations.

 

 IX. Texbooks and Supplementary Reading

Textbooks

McKinney, James C.  The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults.  Waveland Press Inc, 2005.

Ware, Clifton, Adventures in Singing, Third or Fourth Edition.   McGraw-Hill, Inc.:  Boston, 1998.

 

 Supplementary Reading

Alderson, Richard   Complete Handbook of Voice Training.  Parker Publishing Company, 1979.

Conable, Barbaa.  What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body.  Andover Press.

Doscher, Barbara.  The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice.  The Scarecrow Press, 1994.

Bunch, Meribeth. (1982, revised 1993). Dynamics of the Singing Voice. N.Y. -Wien: Springer-Verlag.

Miller, Richard. (1986). The Structure of Singing. New York: Schirmer Books.

Miller, Richard (2004) Solutions for Singers:  Tools for Performers and Teachers. New York:  Oxford.

Ware, Clifton.  Basics of Vocal Pedagogy:  The Foundations and Process of Singing.  McGraw Hill. 1998.

 

 Articles

Brynn-Juulson, Phyllis.  Studio Contract:  How to work with a voice teacher.  Opera News (July 2004) Vol. 69, no 1, p. 22-23.

Buescher, Randy.  An Interview with Seth Riggs.  Journal of Singing, May/June 2004, Vol. 60, No 5, pp 487-490.

Edwin, Robert.  From Classical to Pop:  A Case Study.  Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2000, Vol 56 no 3, pp 71-72.

Edwin, Robert.  Belting:  bel canto or brutto canto?  Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct 2002, Vol. 59, pp 67-68.

Edwin, Robert.  Vocal Parenting.  NATS Journal, Jan/Feb 1995, pp 53-56.

Edwin, Robert.  Children are Singing.  The Journal of Voice and Voice Disorders, July 2002, pp. 11-14.

Marks, Robert.  Popular Song and Music Theater:  Preparing Logical 16-bar cuts for Audition Songs.  Journal of Singing, Jan-Feb 2008, p. 355-358.

Milbrath, Rochelle L. and Nancy Pearl Solomon.  Do Vocal Warm-up Exercises Alleviate Vocal Fatigue?  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, V 46, no 2 (April 2003) p 422-36.

Patenaude-Yarnell, Joan.  Challenges of the Private Studio.  Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct 2002, Vol. 59 no 1, pp 65-66.

Robison, Clayne. (2001). “Beautiful Singing: What It is and How to Do It”. NATS Journal of Singing, Sept./Oct., 58, 1: pp. 7-28

Sjoerdsma, Richard Dale.  NATS Visits AATS.  Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2002.  Vol 56 no 3 pp. 201-202.

Stoher, Sharon.  Homestyle Pedagogy:  Studio Letters.  Journal of Singing, Sept-Oct 2004 83-86.

 

 Videos

Robison, Clayne.  Beautiful Singing:  Not Just for the Chosen.  BYU Broadcasting, 2004.

Saunders-Barton, Mary.  Bel canto/Can Belto.  Penn State Press, 2008.

 

 X. Computer and Technology Usage

On reserve in the Library:

Caldwell, Robert and Joan Wall.  The Singer’s Voice Video Tape Series.  Caldwell Publishing.

 

 Websites:  New York Teacher’s of Singing Resource Page.  www.nyst.org/resources/readinglist.html

Vocal Splendor:  www.vocalsplendor.com/links.html

Schoonmaker, Dr. Bruce.  alpha.furman.edu/~bschoon/essays.html  Essays on Singing

Emmons, Shirley.  Voice Performance Website.  www.voiceperformance.com/