MUSC12044 Voice and Vocal Performance

This course begins with the ways the body communicates meanings in non-verbal language and how it is used to express ideas without voice. The course moves on then to a study of the anatomy of voice production and the way sounds are formed. Impediments to speech are analysed and ways to modify these studied. The principles of breathing, phrasing, emphasis, meaning of words and ideas, gesture, correct pronunciation and distinct articulation are studied. Voice practice is followed through in speech and song through individual, group, ensemble and choral works.