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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:Voice principals Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Introductory jazz/blues performance lab for voice principals designed to prepare students for solo performance in ensembles and other performing venues within a specific song style. Vocalists will learn how to count off tempos of songs, microphone technique, song style and groove, communication with the accompanist, and lead sheet preparation.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:Voice principals Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Introductory r&b performance lab for voice principals designed to prepare students for solo performance in ensembles and other performing venues within a specific song style. Vocalists will learn how to count off tempos of songs, microphone technique, song style and groove, communication with the accompanist, and lead sheet preparation.
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1.00 Credits
Credits:1 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Fall Description Improvement of English language pronunciation and articulation through the application of English language phonetics in pop, rock, and jazz vocal styles. Song delivery and stylistic interpretation; weekly listening examples; specific assignments in diction and lyrical interpretation; weekly class performance.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:None Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description A lab for vocalists focusing on basic skills in improvisation in a variety of styles. Melodic and rhythmic phrasing, embellishments, using tone colors, and hearing basic blues patterns in vocal styles including pop, rock, r&b, and jazz.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:None Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This lab is designed to increase body awareness and develop the stage presence and performance skills of vocalists through the use of acting techniques. Improvisational acting methods will be utilized in song performances.
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1.00 Credits
Credits:1 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:MTHE majors Electable by:Nonvoice principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description A lab for nonvoice principals designed to address the basic elements of singing: breath management, intonation, tone quality, and phrasing. Students will participate in periodic self-assessment, including videotaping of in-class performance.
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2.00 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILVC-111 Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:Voice principals Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description A continuation of ILVC-111. Additional concentration on singing lyrics on chord tones, seventh chords, minor chords, and modes in different time-feels and grooves.
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1.00 Credits
Credits:1 credit Prerequisites:By audition and written approval of instructor Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Fall Description Vocalists are immersed in the jazz music of important and influential vocal groups from 1930 to present. Vocal groups covered include the Boswell Sisters; the Mills Brothers; Mel Torme and the Mel-Tones; Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross; Swingle Singers; Take 6; and Manhattan Transfer. Students will strive for authentic performances through listening, studying printed transcriptions, emulating tone, articulation, diction, and phrasing of specific vocal arrangements. Materials covered vary according to the starting level of the student group. A final performance is required.
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0.50 Credits
Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:None Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:None Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description An introductory lab for aspiring jazz vocalists. Study of American composers and repertoire including Porter, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart. Emphasis on sight-reading, analysis, elements of swing, bebop and vocalese, rhythmic figures, scales, and melodic embellishments.
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1.00 Credits
Credits:1 credit Prerequisites:ENVC-111 Course Chair:J. Shapiro Required of:None Electable by:Voice principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description A lab designed to prepare singers for performance with accompanying instrumentalists. Students will conduct open rehearsals of their own basic arrangements of pop, rock, jazz, and r&b tunes. Emphasis on communication skills, effective rehearsal procedures, and the independent and collective role of each rhythm section member. Intended to increase the singer's aptitude for participation in college ensemble offerings.
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